Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Feb 19, 2008 4:07 PM, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JOHN CULLETON wrote: on recommending Lyx to TEX newbies. If someone can cite a version of Lyx that runs without tears on the latest stable version of Slack (12) then I may give it a try again.

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-19 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 05:55:21 Paul Johnson wrote: Is there any news on this trouble?  I'm a little puzzled by it. On Fedora 8, I just installed the bleeding edge KDE4 and found that lyx crashed, and then I googled my way to this thread.  I am running the lyx package that is distributed

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No offense intended Steve but you are obviously confused with version numbers etc. I even suspect that you didn't even fully read the README and INSTALL that come with the source. As an end-user, either you wait for your

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No offense intended Steve but you are obviously confused with version numbers etc. I even suspect that you didn't even fully read the README and INSTALL that come with the source. As an end-user, either you wait for your distro to come with a binary

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread cmiramon
But now I want to upgrade LyX without installing a newer operating system. I don't think that's too much to ask. According to this : http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?mversion=communitymversion=cookermversion=currentsearch=lyxst=rpmnamesubmit=Soumettreqcount=20 Lyx 1.5.3 is in the repository

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the case of Steve, his problem was clearly something he could have resolved by himself without questioning our choice of development tool. Well, anybody can at least question our choices. This does not mean that we shall not stand by them, but

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the case of Steve, his problem was clearly something he could have resolved by himself without questioning our choice of development tool. Well, anybody can at least question our choices. This does not mean that we

handling of images that are larger than paper size

2008-02-19 Thread Hans J. Prueller
hi all! is it possible to configure lyx in a way, that it handles images that are larger than pagesize in a proper way? e.g. I have created a mindmap and exported it as .PNG - the image file is rather big and when I insert the image into my lyx document, it exceeds the paper size (A4) and lyx

Eqnarray

2008-02-19 Thread Nicolas Ferré
Hi, If I want to change, e.g. the size or the font of several cells at the same time in an eqnarray environment, LyX only modifies the first cell and erases the other cells. Moreover the 'undo' does not succeed in turning back to the original cells. Is it a bug or do I miss something ? --

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But now I want to upgrade LyX without installing a newer operating system. I don't think that's too much to ask. Lyx 1.5.3 is in the repository main/testing current of Mandriva. This is for people using Mandriva 2008. Some people use older versions... JMarc

Re: handling of images that are larger than paper size

2008-02-19 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Hans J. Prueller wrote: is there any possibility to handle large images correctly? i.e. auto-resizing it to fit to single page or displaying a single image over multiple pages? Select 100 Textsize% as width or 100% Textheight as height in the graphics dialog. Jürgen

Re: Minor issue with \implies

2008-02-19 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Done (#4561). I just committed a fix to both trees, since the fix was so obvious. Jürgen

Re: Losing marked area when moving arrow keys

2008-02-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I built the newest svn version yesterday (because 1.5.3 became VERY slow after an update of my gentoo linux system ?,-( ) I seems to work ok so far with one annoying effect: Using the shift+ctrl+arrow keys I can mark several words, fine. But the

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Micha
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:22:38 +0100 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No offense intended Steve but you are obviously confused with version numbers etc. I even suspect that you didn't even fully read the README and INSTALL that come

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Micha [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: He wants a nice new Ferrari and still fuel it with leaded fuel, it doesn't work that way. It is just a matter of having a program that works well and where issues get fixed. If today somebody comes and ask for a bugfix to LyX 1.37, I do not think it would be met

Re: Problems with Lyx in connection to JabRef

2008-02-19 Thread Robert Orr
Maybe it's makebst --- Bob Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whoops, wrong Subject for email If you do not find a suitable style file, you can easily create your own. Type latex makbst in a console window, and answer the questions. Jürgen I tried this on my Windows XP

Re: all classes unavailable

2008-02-19 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Feb 14, 2008 6:12 PM, Mukhtar Ullah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear LyX users, Today I updated MiKTeX 2.7 packages on windows and reconfigured LyX after that. Now LyX shows all classes as unavailable. I have no idea what is going on. I would not expect this behavior because it was only a

Howto put itemize inside beamer block

2008-02-19 Thread Neal Becker
One time I did this, the latex looks like: \begin{block} {Key Idea} \begin{itemize} \item \alert{blah blah...} \end{itemize} \end{block} I can't seem to enter this in lyx (although I must have done it once before). Either I forgot how, or lyx 1.5.3 doesn't work. If I select block, then put in

Re: Losing marked area when moving arrow keys

2008-02-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you still see this bug? I cannot reproduce it. No, seems to have gone. Sorry that I didn't pay attention after which step of installation, somewhat more intensive use. Good. JMarc

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 05:54:30PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: UIC=/usr/lib/qt4/bin/uic ./configure --with-extra-prefix=/usr/lib/qt4 --with-qt4-dir=/usr/lib/qt4 --with-qt4-includes=/usr/lib/qt4/include --with-qt4-libraries=/usr/lib/qt4/lib There's btw no reason to actuall _install_ Qt, running

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 07:41:49PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: Then there's the fact that some of us have dialup, and some in rural areas are years from getting broadband. The just upgrade your qt suggestion could be a day's downloading over a phone line that could go down any time. I've been

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:55:21PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: I can't understand how/why LyX depends on kdelibs. LyX doesn't depend on KDE. Andre'

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 05:38:49PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 18 February 2008 17:07, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: To answer your Subject line: xforms has not been maintained in around four years. And, it was plain ugly. :-) Better

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 03:27:28PM -0800, JOHN CULLETON wrote: While in the process of trying to add things like Qt4 to my Slack 12 system I managed to mung my ability to send outgoing mail. Surely Qt ate your outgoing mail. There's no way that this could be case of PEBKAC. Earth is flat,

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 01:54:26AM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: erm, this is the second time you mention qt 2.x.y, i previsouly thought its just typo and i wonder - on my distro there are only qt 3.3.8 and qt 4.3.2 available. you really mean 'upgrade to 2.2.3' ? - this seems to be some message

Re: Losing marked area when moving arrow keys

2008-02-19 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Jean-Marc, thanks for reminding me. Do you still see this bug? I cannot reproduce it. No, seems to have gone. Sorry that I didn't pay attention after which step of installation, somewhat more intensive use. Cheers Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Degenfeldstraße 2

Re: Howto put itemize inside beamer block

2008-02-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Neal Becker wrote: One time I did this, the latex looks like: \begin{block} {Key Idea} \begin{itemize} \item \alert{blah blah...} \end{itemize} \end{block} I can't seem to enter this in lyx (although I must have done it once before). Either I forgot how, or lyx 1.5.3 doesn't work. If I

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:22:38AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No offense intended Steve but you are obviously confused with version numbers etc. I even suspect that you didn't even fully read the README and INSTALL that come with the

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Feb 19, 2008 11:06 AM, Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:55:21PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: I can't understand how/why LyX depends on kdelibs. LyX doesn't depend on KDE. Andre' Yes, that is what I said at the start. Then how in the world can it be an

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-19 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Paul Johnson wrote: Yes, that is what I said at the start.  Then how in the world can it be an update of kdebase from version 3 to 4.0.1 makes lyx break? Because Qt makes use of plugins provided by KDE. There's *nothing* LyX can do to prevent that. Or, more to the point, what should I do to

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 12:45:37PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: On Feb 19, 2008 11:06 AM, Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:55:21PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: I can't understand how/why LyX depends on kdelibs. LyX doesn't depend on KDE. Andre' Yes,

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Johnson
Oh, please. The suspense is killing me. Did Steve succeed in building the LyX he wants? If not, lets help him do it. The troubles that were posted early on were common errors in configure/make stages of building software. My recollection is that Mandriva is an RPM based system that branched

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 01:38:31PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: Oh, please. The suspense is killing me. Did Steve succeed in building the LyX he wants? If not, lets help him do it. The troubles that were posted early on were common errors in configure/make stages of building software. I am

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 02:59:04PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: Thanks very much Paul, I have no time today, but tomorrow or the next day I'll delete the LyX source tree, re-extract the tarball, and try again now that libqt4-devel is installed. One thing I cannot do is upgrade from Qt-4.1.4

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Steve Litt
Thanks very much Paul, I have no time today, but tomorrow or the next day I'll delete the LyX source tree, re-extract the tarball, and try again now that libqt4-devel is installed. One thing I cannot do is upgrade from Qt-4.1.4 to Qt-4.2.3. I'm concerned about the stability of my system as a

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread deedee
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 11:38 am, Paul Johnson wrote: My recollection is that Mandriva is an RPM based system that branched out of Mandrake, which began as a simple re-packaging of RedHat linux with optimized packages for i586 and i686. I see nothing in their pages to make me think I'm

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 02:01, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Interestingly, it appears that in order to upgrade to qt 2.2.3, I would need to upgrade my glibc (because of rtld(GNU_HASH)). I'm sorry, but that's just too much to expect from a user. No offense intended Steve

Re: Fuzzy fonts (Hebrew)

2008-02-19 Thread Eran Kaplinsky
To my eyes, the windows version is superior. So, it must be the culmus fonts. Eran

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Feb 19, 2008 1:38 PM, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2008 02:01, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Interestingly, it appears that in order to upgrade to qt 2.2.3, I would need to upgrade my glibc (because of rtld(GNU_HASH)). I'm sorry, but

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 02:07, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: JOHN CULLETON wrote: While in the process of trying to add things like Qt4 to my Slack 12 system I managed to mung my ability to send outgoing mail. I reinstalled on a fresh partition but I still have problems. So among other

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 02:01, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Then there's the fact that some of us have dialup, and some in rural areas are years from getting broadband. The just upgrade your qt suggestion could be a day's downloading over a phone line that could go down

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Pavel Sanda
While in the process of trying to add things like Qt4 to my Slack 12 system I managed to mung my ability to send outgoing mail. I reinstalled on a fresh partition but I still have problems. So among other things I am giving up on Lyx. More to the point, I am giving up on

Mac OSX LyX Install: No templates included

2008-02-19 Thread James Miller
Hi all, After attempting to read through the tutorial, I noticed it mentioned that LyX included sample templates to edit and get a running start. When I go to File...New from Template the directory is empty. Am I doing something wrong? Or did something go wrong with my install? Thanks

Re: Mac OSX LyX Install: No templates included

2008-02-19 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:33 PM, James Miller wrote: Hi all, After attempting to read through the tutorial, I noticed it mentioned that LyX included sample templates to edit and get a running start. When I go to File...New from Template the directory is empty. Am I doing something

Re: Mac OSX LyX Install: No templates included

2008-02-19 Thread James Miller
On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:33 PM, James Miller wrote: Hi all, After attempting to read through the tutorial, I noticed it mentioned that LyX included sample templates to edit and get a running start. When I go to File...New from Template the directory is empty. Am I doing something

Re: Mac OSX LyX Install: No templates included

2008-02-19 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:49 PM, James Miller wrote: On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:33 PM, James Miller wrote: Hi all, After attempting to read through the tutorial, I noticed it mentioned that LyX included sample templates to edit and get a running start. When I go to File...New from

Re: Mac OSX LyX Install: No templates included

2008-02-19 Thread Bennett Helm
On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:49 PM, James Miller wrote: On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:33 PM, James Miller wrote: Hi all, After attempting to read through the tutorial, I noticed it mentioned that LyX included sample templates to edit and get a running start. When I go to File...New from Template

Re: Mac OSX LyX Install: No templates included

2008-02-19 Thread James Miller
On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:11 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:49 PM, James Miller wrote: On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:33 PM, James Miller wrote: Hi all, After attempting to read through the tutorial, I noticed it mentioned that LyX included sample templates to edit and get a running

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2008 02:01, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Then there's the fact that some of us have dialup, and some in rural areas are years from getting broadband. The just upgrade your qt suggestion could be a day's downloading over a phone line that

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: Yeah, that's the way to get LyX users -- tell em if they're not willing to upgrade the very vitals of their OS so that the developers can use the latest and greatest Qt instead of providing compatibility with a couple year old version (Qt 4 came out summer 2005, but Qt 4.2 is

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2008 02:01, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Then there's the fact that some of us have dialup, and some in rural areas are years from getting broadband. The just upgrade your qt suggestion could be a day's downloading over a phone line that

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Feb 19, 2008 4:07 PM, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JOHN CULLETON wrote: on recommending Lyx to TEX newbies. If someone can cite a version of Lyx that runs without tears on the latest stable version of Slack (12) then I may give it a try again.

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-19 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 05:55:21 Paul Johnson wrote: Is there any news on this trouble?  I'm a little puzzled by it. On Fedora 8, I just installed the bleeding edge KDE4 and found that lyx crashed, and then I googled my way to this thread.  I am running the lyx package that is distributed

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No offense intended Steve but you are obviously confused with version numbers etc. I even suspect that you didn't even fully read the README and INSTALL that come with the source. As an end-user, either you wait for your

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No offense intended Steve but you are obviously confused with version numbers etc. I even suspect that you didn't even fully read the README and INSTALL that come with the source. As an end-user, either you wait for your distro to come with a binary

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread cmiramon
But now I want to upgrade LyX without installing a newer operating system. I don't think that's too much to ask. According to this : http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?mversion=communitymversion=cookermversion=currentsearch=lyxst=rpmnamesubmit=Soumettreqcount=20 Lyx 1.5.3 is in the repository

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the case of Steve, his problem was clearly something he could have resolved by himself without questioning our choice of development tool. Well, anybody can at least question our choices. This does not mean that we shall not stand by them, but

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the case of Steve, his problem was clearly something he could have resolved by himself without questioning our choice of development tool. Well, anybody can at least question our choices. This does not mean that we

handling of images that are larger than paper size

2008-02-19 Thread Hans J. Prueller
hi all! is it possible to configure lyx in a way, that it handles images that are larger than pagesize in a proper way? e.g. I have created a mindmap and exported it as .PNG - the image file is rather big and when I insert the image into my lyx document, it exceeds the paper size (A4) and lyx

Eqnarray

2008-02-19 Thread Nicolas Ferré
Hi, If I want to change, e.g. the size or the font of several cells at the same time in an eqnarray environment, LyX only modifies the first cell and erases the other cells. Moreover the 'undo' does not succeed in turning back to the original cells. Is it a bug or do I miss something ? --

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But now I want to upgrade LyX without installing a newer operating system. I don't think that's too much to ask. Lyx 1.5.3 is in the repository main/testing current of Mandriva. This is for people using Mandriva 2008. Some people use older versions... JMarc

Re: handling of images that are larger than paper size

2008-02-19 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Hans J. Prueller wrote: is there any possibility to handle large images correctly? i.e. auto-resizing it to fit to single page or displaying a single image over multiple pages? Select 100 Textsize% as width or 100% Textheight as height in the graphics dialog. Jürgen

Re: Minor issue with \implies

2008-02-19 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Done (#4561). I just committed a fix to both trees, since the fix was so obvious. Jürgen

Re: Losing marked area when moving arrow keys

2008-02-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I built the newest svn version yesterday (because 1.5.3 became VERY slow after an update of my gentoo linux system ?,-( ) I seems to work ok so far with one annoying effect: Using the shift+ctrl+arrow keys I can mark several words, fine. But the

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Micha
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:22:38 +0100 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No offense intended Steve but you are obviously confused with version numbers etc. I even suspect that you didn't even fully read the README and INSTALL that come

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Micha [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: He wants a nice new Ferrari and still fuel it with leaded fuel, it doesn't work that way. It is just a matter of having a program that works well and where issues get fixed. If today somebody comes and ask for a bugfix to LyX 1.37, I do not think it would be met

Re: Problems with Lyx in connection to JabRef

2008-02-19 Thread Robert Orr
Maybe it's makebst --- Bob Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whoops, wrong Subject for email If you do not find a suitable style file, you can easily create your own. Type latex makbst in a console window, and answer the questions. Jürgen I tried this on my Windows XP

Re: all classes unavailable

2008-02-19 Thread Bob Lounsbury
On Feb 14, 2008 6:12 PM, Mukhtar Ullah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear LyX users, Today I updated MiKTeX 2.7 packages on windows and reconfigured LyX after that. Now LyX shows all classes as unavailable. I have no idea what is going on. I would not expect this behavior because it was only a

Howto put itemize inside beamer block

2008-02-19 Thread Neal Becker
One time I did this, the latex looks like: \begin{block} {Key Idea} \begin{itemize} \item \alert{blah blah...} \end{itemize} \end{block} I can't seem to enter this in lyx (although I must have done it once before). Either I forgot how, or lyx 1.5.3 doesn't work. If I select block, then put in

Re: Losing marked area when moving arrow keys

2008-02-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you still see this bug? I cannot reproduce it. No, seems to have gone. Sorry that I didn't pay attention after which step of installation, somewhat more intensive use. Good. JMarc

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 05:54:30PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: UIC=/usr/lib/qt4/bin/uic ./configure --with-extra-prefix=/usr/lib/qt4 --with-qt4-dir=/usr/lib/qt4 --with-qt4-includes=/usr/lib/qt4/include --with-qt4-libraries=/usr/lib/qt4/lib There's btw no reason to actuall _install_ Qt, running

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 07:41:49PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: Then there's the fact that some of us have dialup, and some in rural areas are years from getting broadband. The just upgrade your qt suggestion could be a day's downloading over a phone line that could go down any time. I've been

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:55:21PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: I can't understand how/why LyX depends on kdelibs. LyX doesn't depend on KDE. Andre'

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 05:38:49PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 18 February 2008 17:07, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: To answer your Subject line: xforms has not been maintained in around four years. And, it was plain ugly. :-) Better

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 03:27:28PM -0800, JOHN CULLETON wrote: While in the process of trying to add things like Qt4 to my Slack 12 system I managed to mung my ability to send outgoing mail. Surely Qt ate your outgoing mail. There's no way that this could be case of PEBKAC. Earth is flat,

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 01:54:26AM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: erm, this is the second time you mention qt 2.x.y, i previsouly thought its just typo and i wonder - on my distro there are only qt 3.3.8 and qt 4.3.2 available. you really mean 'upgrade to 2.2.3' ? - this seems to be some message

Re: Losing marked area when moving arrow keys

2008-02-19 Thread Hellmut Weber
Hi Jean-Marc, thanks for reminding me. Do you still see this bug? I cannot reproduce it. No, seems to have gone. Sorry that I didn't pay attention after which step of installation, somewhat more intensive use. Cheers Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Degenfeldstraße 2

Re: Howto put itemize inside beamer block

2008-02-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Neal Becker wrote: One time I did this, the latex looks like: \begin{block} {Key Idea} \begin{itemize} \item \alert{blah blah...} \end{itemize} \end{block} I can't seem to enter this in lyx (although I must have done it once before). Either I forgot how, or lyx 1.5.3 doesn't work. If I

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:22:38AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No offense intended Steve but you are obviously confused with version numbers etc. I even suspect that you didn't even fully read the README and INSTALL that come with the

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Feb 19, 2008 11:06 AM, Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:55:21PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: I can't understand how/why LyX depends on kdelibs. LyX doesn't depend on KDE. Andre' Yes, that is what I said at the start. Then how in the world can it be an

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-19 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Paul Johnson wrote: Yes, that is what I said at the start.  Then how in the world can it be an update of kdebase from version 3 to 4.0.1 makes lyx break? Because Qt makes use of plugins provided by KDE. There's *nothing* LyX can do to prevent that. Or, more to the point, what should I do to

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 12:45:37PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: On Feb 19, 2008 11:06 AM, Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:55:21PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: I can't understand how/why LyX depends on kdelibs. LyX doesn't depend on KDE. Andre' Yes,

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Johnson
Oh, please. The suspense is killing me. Did Steve succeed in building the LyX he wants? If not, lets help him do it. The troubles that were posted early on were common errors in configure/make stages of building software. My recollection is that Mandriva is an RPM based system that branched

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 01:38:31PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: Oh, please. The suspense is killing me. Did Steve succeed in building the LyX he wants? If not, lets help him do it. The troubles that were posted early on were common errors in configure/make stages of building software. I am

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 02:59:04PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: Thanks very much Paul, I have no time today, but tomorrow or the next day I'll delete the LyX source tree, re-extract the tarball, and try again now that libqt4-devel is installed. One thing I cannot do is upgrade from Qt-4.1.4

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Steve Litt
Thanks very much Paul, I have no time today, but tomorrow or the next day I'll delete the LyX source tree, re-extract the tarball, and try again now that libqt4-devel is installed. One thing I cannot do is upgrade from Qt-4.1.4 to Qt-4.2.3. I'm concerned about the stability of my system as a

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread deedee
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 11:38 am, Paul Johnson wrote: My recollection is that Mandriva is an RPM based system that branched out of Mandrake, which began as a simple re-packaging of RedHat linux with optimized packages for i586 and i686. I see nothing in their pages to make me think I'm

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 02:01, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Interestingly, it appears that in order to upgrade to qt 2.2.3, I would need to upgrade my glibc (because of rtld(GNU_HASH)). I'm sorry, but that's just too much to expect from a user. No offense intended Steve

Re: Fuzzy fonts (Hebrew)

2008-02-19 Thread Eran Kaplinsky
To my eyes, the windows version is superior. So, it must be the culmus fonts. Eran

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Feb 19, 2008 1:38 PM, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2008 02:01, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Interestingly, it appears that in order to upgrade to qt 2.2.3, I would need to upgrade my glibc (because of rtld(GNU_HASH)). I'm sorry, but

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 02:07, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: JOHN CULLETON wrote: While in the process of trying to add things like Qt4 to my Slack 12 system I managed to mung my ability to send outgoing mail. I reinstalled on a fresh partition but I still have problems. So among other

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 02:01, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Then there's the fact that some of us have dialup, and some in rural areas are years from getting broadband. The just upgrade your qt suggestion could be a day's downloading over a phone line that could go down

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Pavel Sanda
While in the process of trying to add things like Qt4 to my Slack 12 system I managed to mung my ability to send outgoing mail. I reinstalled on a fresh partition but I still have problems. So among other things I am giving up on Lyx. More to the point, I am giving up on

Mac OSX LyX Install: No templates included

2008-02-19 Thread James Miller
Hi all, After attempting to read through the tutorial, I noticed it mentioned that LyX included sample templates to edit and get a running start. When I go to File...New from Template the directory is empty. Am I doing something wrong? Or did something go wrong with my install? Thanks

Re: Mac OSX LyX Install: No templates included

2008-02-19 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:33 PM, James Miller wrote: Hi all, After attempting to read through the tutorial, I noticed it mentioned that LyX included sample templates to edit and get a running start. When I go to File...New from Template the directory is empty. Am I doing something

Re: Mac OSX LyX Install: No templates included

2008-02-19 Thread James Miller
On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:33 PM, James Miller wrote: Hi all, After attempting to read through the tutorial, I noticed it mentioned that LyX included sample templates to edit and get a running start. When I go to File...New from Template the directory is empty. Am I doing something

Re: Mac OSX LyX Install: No templates included

2008-02-19 Thread Stephen Buonopane
On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:49 PM, James Miller wrote: On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:33 PM, James Miller wrote: Hi all, After attempting to read through the tutorial, I noticed it mentioned that LyX included sample templates to edit and get a running start. When I go to File...New from

Re: Mac OSX LyX Install: No templates included

2008-02-19 Thread Bennett Helm
On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:49 PM, James Miller wrote: On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:33 PM, James Miller wrote: Hi all, After attempting to read through the tutorial, I noticed it mentioned that LyX included sample templates to edit and get a running start. When I go to File...New from Template

Re: Mac OSX LyX Install: No templates included

2008-02-19 Thread James Miller
On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:11 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:49 PM, James Miller wrote: On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:33 PM, James Miller wrote: Hi all, After attempting to read through the tutorial, I noticed it mentioned that LyX included sample templates to edit and get a running

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2008 02:01, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Then there's the fact that some of us have dialup, and some in rural areas are years from getting broadband. The just upgrade your qt suggestion could be a day's downloading over a phone line that

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