Re: We need documentation on using layouts in documents

2008-06-09 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, Steve Litt wrote: In the 7 years I've used LyX, every book had its own layout, and every single time, I spent hours tweaking around trying to get my layout visible to the document so that I could use my specialized document class. Hi Steve, Just to be clear on the basic

Re: We need documentation on using layouts in documents

2008-06-09 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, Steve Litt wrote: In the 7 years I've used LyX, every book had its own layout, and every single time, I spent hours tweaking around trying to get my layout visible to the document so that I could use my specialized document class. Hi Steve, Just to be clear on the basic

Re: We need documentation on using layouts in documents

2008-06-09 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, Steve Litt wrote: In the 7 years I've used LyX, every book had its own layout, and every single time, I spent hours tweaking around trying to get my layout visible to the document so that I could use my specialized document class. Hi Steve, Just to be clear on the basic

Re: Lyx-users mail server error

2008-05-30 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 29 May 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I am trying to attach a example lyx file to ask a question. But my messages keep getting rejected with the error below. The example file is only 98K. Thanks. Please consider making a way smaller example. I agree. Please make the example much

Re: Lyx-users mail server error

2008-05-30 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 29 May 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I am trying to attach a example lyx file to ask a question. But my messages keep getting rejected with the error below. The example file is only 98K. Thanks. Please consider making a way smaller example. I agree. Please make the example much

Re: Lyx-users mail server error

2008-05-30 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 29 May 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I am trying to attach a example lyx file to ask a question. But my messages keep getting rejected with the error below. The example file is only 98K. Thanks. Please consider making a way smaller example. I agree. Please make the example much

Re: Using a network printer

2008-05-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Helge Hafting wrote: Some people have lpr instead of lp, consider replacing lp then. Cups (in debian: the package cupsys-client) provides a lp binary that lyx can use. This will print to whatever printer cups considers default. In case it helps someone else, it turns out

LyX 1.5.5 under Ubuntu does not find LaTeX packages

2008-05-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi, I've downloaded LyX 1.5.5 and built it in a local directory. Then I run lyx-1.5.5/src/lyx and try to do a reconfigure. The result is a message about: The system reconfiguration has failed. Default textclass is used but LyX may not be able to work properly.

Re: Packages required under Linux

2008-05-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: Some recent threads raised this question. It's indeed one thing that did puzzle me under Linux (Ubuntu), especially when compared to a Windows install. Thanks, this helped me - now Lyx no longer complains after a recompile, and many of the classes

Re: Using a network printer

2008-05-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Helge Hafting wrote: Some people have lpr instead of lp, consider replacing lp then. Cups (in debian: the package cupsys-client) provides a lp binary that lyx can use. This will print to whatever printer cups considers default. In case it helps someone else, it turns out

LyX 1.5.5 under Ubuntu does not find LaTeX packages

2008-05-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi, I've downloaded LyX 1.5.5 and built it in a local directory. Then I run lyx-1.5.5/src/lyx and try to do a reconfigure. The result is a message about: The system reconfiguration has failed. Default textclass is used but LyX may not be able to work properly.

Re: Packages required under Linux

2008-05-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: Some recent threads raised this question. It's indeed one thing that did puzzle me under Linux (Ubuntu), especially when compared to a Windows install. Thanks, this helped me - now Lyx no longer complains after a recompile, and many of the classes

Re: Using a network printer

2008-05-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Helge Hafting wrote: Some people have "lpr" instead of "lp", consider replacing "lp" then. Cups (in debian: the package cupsys-client) provides a "lp" binary that lyx can use. This will print to whatever printer cups considers default. In case it helps someone else, it

LyX 1.5.5 under Ubuntu does not find LaTeX packages

2008-05-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi, I've downloaded LyX 1.5.5 and built it in a local directory. Then I run lyx-1.5.5/src/lyx and try to do a reconfigure. The result is a message about: The system reconfiguration has failed. Default textclass is used but LyX may not be able to work properly.

Re: Packages required under Linux

2008-05-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: Some recent threads raised this question. It's indeed one thing that did puzzle me under Linux (Ubuntu), especially when compared to a Windows install. Thanks, this helped me - now Lyx no longer complains after a recompile, and many of the classes

Re: Lyx test site not found

2008-04-28 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL schrieb: I receive a lot of messages with [LyX] recent notify posts as subject, but when I try to go to the site ( e.g. http://www.lyx.org/test/Web.AboutLyX ), I have an error : The requested URL /test/Web.AboutLyX was

Re: Lyx test site not found

2008-04-28 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL schrieb: I receive a lot of messages with [LyX] recent notify posts as subject, but when I try to go to the site ( e.g. http://www.lyx.org/test/Web.AboutLyX ), I have an error : The requested URL /test/Web.AboutLyX was

Re: Lyx test site not found

2008-04-28 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL schrieb: I receive a lot of messages with "[LyX] recent notify posts" as subject, but when I try to go to the site ( e.g. http://www.lyx.org/test/Web.AboutLyX ), I have an error : "The requested URL /test/Web.AboutLyX

Re: romanizing references

2008-04-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Ernesto Posse schrieb: Hi. Is there a way to make references into roman numerals? Oh, I'm so disappointed... I read it as _romanticizing_ references.. - To view or interpret romantically; make romantic. - To think in a romantic way.

Re: romanizing references

2008-04-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Ernesto Posse schrieb: Hi. Is there a way to make references into roman numerals? Oh, I'm so disappointed... I read it as _romanticizing_ references.. - To view or interpret romantically; make romantic. - To think in a romantic way.

Re: romanizing references

2008-04-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Ernesto Posse schrieb: Hi. Is there a way to make references into roman numerals? Oh, I'm so disappointed... I read it as _romanticizing_ references.. - To view or interpret romantically; make romantic. - To think in a romantic way.

The wiki now blocks 'href' as a word

2008-04-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi, To prevent spam, I configured the wiki to block 'href' through the regular expression \bhref\b which should match 'href' as a separate word. I hope this will stop stupid spam bots that try to instert HTML links. Words that _contain_ 'href' should still be allowed. Cheers,

The wiki now blocks 'href' as a word

2008-04-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi, To prevent spam, I configured the wiki to block 'href' through the regular expression \bhref\b which should match 'href' as a separate word. I hope this will stop stupid spam bots that try to instert HTML links. Words that _contain_ 'href' should still be allowed. Cheers,

The wiki now blocks 'href' as a word

2008-04-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi, To prevent spam, I configured the wiki to block 'href' through the regular expression \bhref\b which should match 'href' as a separate word. I hope this will stop stupid spam bots that try to instert HTML links. Words that _contain_ 'href' should still be allowed. Cheers,

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-08 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Alan G Isaac wrote: On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Rich Shepard apparently wrote: I strongly recommend PSTricks. Don't forget about tikz, which is more than enough for most users but it more portable. (E.g., it can be used with pdftex.) I created a wiki

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-08 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Alan G Isaac wrote: On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Rich Shepard apparently wrote: I strongly recommend PSTricks. Don't forget about tikz, which is more than enough for most users but it more portable. (E.g., it can be used with pdftex.) I created a wiki

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-08 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Alan G Isaac wrote: On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Rich Shepard apparently wrote: > I strongly recommend PSTricks. Don't forget about tikz, which is more than enough for most users but it more portable. (E.g., it can be used with pdftex.) I created a wiki

www.lyx.org/test temporarily down (renamed..)

2008-04-06 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi, I've renamed all wiki pages from e.g. Main.HomePage - Web.HomePage this means that the URI http:/www.lyx.org/test/HomePage no longer works, as it is automatically mapped to http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/HomePage

www.lyx.org/test temporarily down (renamed..)

2008-04-06 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi, I've renamed all wiki pages from e.g. Main.HomePage - Web.HomePage this means that the URI http:/www.lyx.org/test/HomePage no longer works, as it is automatically mapped to http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/HomePage

www.lyx.org/test temporarily down (renamed..)

2008-04-06 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi, I've renamed all wiki pages from e.g. Main.HomePage -> Web.HomePage this means that the URI http:/www.lyx.org/test/HomePage no longer works, as it is automatically mapped to http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/HomePage

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-04-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: to the URI. We do not need to restrict ourselve to one skin only. We really should not have multiple designs for our web site. One official skin is enough. I don't see why not, especially as the current site has two slightly different skins. You

Re: LyX logo

2008-04-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, G. Milde wrote: Rather that there are bosses believing that if you have fun at work you are not seriously working. I.e. once they see the platypus on your desktop However, if you're actually using LyX to prepare documents there

Re: Templates, 3d pages graphic, logo ideas

2008-04-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: The 'pages' are nice. However, I don't like the logo. Too far away from the current one... The 'pages' do look nice, but how are they to be used? In a splash screen? /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-04-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: to the URI. We do not need to restrict ourselve to one skin only. We really should not have multiple designs for our web site. One official skin is enough. I don't see why not, especially as the current site has two slightly different skins. You

Re: LyX logo

2008-04-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, G. Milde wrote: Rather that there are bosses believing that if you have fun at work you are not seriously working. I.e. once they see the platypus on your desktop However, if you're actually using LyX to prepare documents there

Re: Templates, 3d pages graphic, logo ideas

2008-04-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: The 'pages' are nice. However, I don't like the logo. Too far away from the current one... The 'pages' do look nice, but how are they to be used? In a splash screen? /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-04-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: to the URI. We do not need to restrict ourselve to one skin only. We really should not have multiple designs for our web site. One official skin is enough. I don't see why not, especially as the current site has two slightly different skins. You

Re: LyX logo

2008-04-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, G. Milde wrote: Rather that there are bosses believing that if you have fun at work you are not seriously working. I.e. once they see the platypus on your desktop However, if you're actually using LyX to prepare documents there

Re: Templates, 3d pages graphic, logo ideas

2008-04-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: The 'pages' are nice. However, I don't like the logo. Too far away from the current one... The 'pages' do look nice, but how are they to be used? In a splash screen? /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, G. Milde wrote: About the logo, her reaction to the current logo were along the following lines (I have to translate): * toys, playground, childish For me, this are co-notations of * funny snip * home made The problem I see with these associations is getting an

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Thanks for your input, everyone. On second thought, it might be best to just stick with the template we have now, since Joost and Christian have put a lot of work into getting it to work right. I think

Re: Removal from mailing list

2008-03-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
@kellyservices.co.uk from this mailing list. Your email exchanges about Lyx, while informative, are clogging up our inboxes. Greetings Nicholas, CONFIDENTIAL The information contained in this email and any attachment is confidential. It is intended only for the named addressee(s). If you are

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: PS. Seriously, I would like to try and install Andrei's work. Andrei, you can contact me off-list so we can work out details. These are just a few example of open-source templates, it's not new work. I know. I mean that if Andrei wants to create

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, G. Milde wrote: About the logo, her reaction to the current logo were along the following lines (I have to translate): * toys, playground, childish For me, this are co-notations of * funny snip * home made The problem I see with these associations is getting an

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Thanks for your input, everyone. On second thought, it might be best to just stick with the template we have now, since Joost and Christian have put a lot of work into getting it to work right. I think

Re: Removal from mailing list

2008-03-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
@kellyservices.co.uk from this mailing list. Your email exchanges about Lyx, while informative, are clogging up our inboxes. Greetings Nicholas, CONFIDENTIAL The information contained in this email and any attachment is confidential. It is intended only for the named addressee(s). If you are

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: PS. Seriously, I would like to try and install Andrei's work. Andrei, you can contact me off-list so we can work out details. These are just a few example of open-source templates, it's not new work. I know. I mean that if Andrei wants to create

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, G. Milde wrote: About the logo, her reaction to the current logo were along the following lines (I have to translate): * toys, playground, childish For me, this are co-notations of * funny * home made The problem I see with these associations is getting an

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Thanks for your input, everyone. On second thought, it might be best to just stick with the template we have now, since Joost and Christian have put a lot of work into getting it to work right. I think

Re: Removal from mailing list

2008-03-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
@kellyservices.co.uk from this mailing list. Your email exchanges about Lyx, while informative, are clogging up our inboxes. Greetings Nicholas, CONFIDENTIAL The information contained in this email and any attachment is confidential. It is intended only for the named addressee(s). If you are

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: PS. Seriously, I would like to try and install Andrei's work. Andrei, you can contact me off-list so we can work out details. These are just a few example of open-source templates, it's not new work. I know. I mean that if Andrei wants to create

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-29 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: the very first page that is shown when you go to http://wiki.lyx.org?) I think it should be a kind of portal page that point people to the right group of wiki pages, preferably with a picture/icon for each group to make it easier to navigate and to

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-29 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Mael Hilléreau wrote: I agree, I like all of them! What about a real platypus? See http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/SplashScreen It could work, but maybe the logotype should be there as well, making the connection stronger. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-29 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: the very first page that is shown when you go to http://wiki.lyx.org?) I think it should be a kind of portal page that point people to the right group of wiki pages, preferably with a picture/icon for each group to make it easier to navigate and to

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-29 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Mael Hilléreau wrote: I agree, I like all of them! What about a real platypus? See http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/SplashScreen It could work, but maybe the logotype should be there as well, making the connection stronger. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-29 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: the very first page that is shown when you go to http://wiki.lyx.org?) I think it should be a kind of "portal page" that point people to the right group of wiki pages, preferably with a picture/icon for each group to make it easier to navigate and

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-29 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Mael Hilléreau wrote: I agree, I like all of them! What about a real platypus? See http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/SplashScreen It could work, but maybe the logotype should be there as well, making the connection stronger. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39

Re: Primary colours of LyX? Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-28 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, AK wrote: A graphical profile spans logo, colours, business cards, stationeries, and a range of supplies for commercial purposes. Mostly, for the project like LyX, I believe that graphical profile should be just a palette of colors and the logo. Ok. The only

Re: Banner, Splash Screen, Logo, Mascot, Name, oh my!

2008-03-28 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: Guys, don't you believe your investing way too much time in this line of problems? :) It's for the first time in ten years or so. So that's a relatively minor

Does the logo look like a platypus? (Was: Primary colours of LyX? )Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-28 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, John wrote: People will remember the Platypus, though, but we already have that. But in all the time that the logo has been there it never occurred to me that it was a platypus, despite being familiar with the O'Reilly like platypus associated with the original example

Re: Primary colours of LyX? Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-28 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, AK wrote: A graphical profile spans logo, colours, business cards, stationeries, and a range of supplies for commercial purposes. Mostly, for the project like LyX, I believe that graphical profile should be just a palette of colors and the logo. Ok. The only

Re: Banner, Splash Screen, Logo, Mascot, Name, oh my!

2008-03-28 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: Guys, don't you believe your investing way too much time in this line of problems? :) It's for the first time in ten years or so. So that's a relatively minor

Does the logo look like a platypus? (Was: Primary colours of LyX? )Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-28 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, John wrote: People will remember the Platypus, though, but we already have that. But in all the time that the logo has been there it never occurred to me that it was a platypus, despite being familiar with the O'Reilly like platypus associated with the original example

Re: Primary colours of LyX? Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-28 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, AK wrote: A graphical profile spans logo, colours, business cards, stationeries, and a range of supplies for commercial purposes. Mostly, for the project like LyX, I believe that graphical profile should be just a palette of colors and the logo. Ok. The only

Re: Banner, Splash Screen, Logo, Mascot, Name, oh my!

2008-03-28 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > Guys, don't you believe your "investing" way too much time in this > > line of > > "problems"? :) > It's for the first time in ten years or so. So that's a relatively >

Does the logo look like a platypus? (Was: Primary colours of LyX? )Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-28 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, John wrote: People will remember the Platypus, though, but we already have that. But in all the time that the logo has been there it never occurred to me that it was a platypus, despite being familiar with the O'Reilly like platypus associated with the original example

Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

2008-03-27 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: We should call our mascot Lydia. I'm not against it, but I'm curious about the reasoning. We need more female users, as the developers are only male, we should at least have a femal mascot ;-). I simply like the name that was first proposed in bug

Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

2008-03-27 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: We should call our mascot Lydia. I'm not against it, but I'm curious about the reasoning. We need more female users, as the developers are only male, we should at least have a femal mascot ;-). I simply like the name that was first proposed in bug

Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

2008-03-27 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > We should call our mascot "Lydia". I'm not against it, but I'm curious about the reasoning. We need more female users, as the developers are only male, we should at least have a femal mascot ;-). I simply like the name that was first proposed in

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-26 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, José Matos wrote: On Tuesday 25 March 2008 00:48:50 M-L wrote: I agree. The bird is good, instantly recognisable and synonymous with LyX. It is the LyX brand in that it is unique. That is not a bird. That is a platypus and is a mammal although it lays eggs.

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-26 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) I think that if you did some more tweaking on that splash screen it'd get quite good. I hope you'll do so! What about this one? The copyright notice is less obvious now, I think that's good. The version number is

New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-26 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: I've uploaded some more designs to compare (including the current splash screen) at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/SplashScreen Joost, They are all outstanding! Very well thought out and crafted. Any of them

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-26 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: current banner because it includes the version number. Is there a difference between 'banner' and 'splash screen'? (I'm wondering if the wiki page shold be renamed) We should call our mascot Lydia. I'm not against it, but I'm curious about the

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-26 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, José Matos wrote: On Tuesday 25 March 2008 00:48:50 M-L wrote: I agree. The bird is good, instantly recognisable and synonymous with LyX. It is the LyX brand in that it is unique. That is not a bird. That is a platypus and is a mammal although it lays eggs.

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-26 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) I think that if you did some more tweaking on that splash screen it'd get quite good. I hope you'll do so! What about this one? The copyright notice is less obvious now, I think that's good. The version number is

New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-26 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: I've uploaded some more designs to compare (including the current splash screen) at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/SplashScreen Joost, They are all outstanding! Very well thought out and crafted. Any of them

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-26 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: current banner because it includes the version number. Is there a difference between 'banner' and 'splash screen'? (I'm wondering if the wiki page shold be renamed) We should call our mascot Lydia. I'm not against it, but I'm curious about the

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-26 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, José Matos wrote: On Tuesday 25 March 2008 00:48:50 M-L wrote: I agree. The bird is good, instantly recognisable and synonymous with LyX. It is the LyX brand in that it is unique. That is not a bird. That is a platypus and is a mammal although it lays eggs.

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-26 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) I think that if you did some more tweaking on that splash screen it'd get quite good. I hope you'll do so! What about this one? The copyright notice is less obvious now, I think that's good. The version number is

New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-26 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: I've uploaded some more designs to compare (including the current splash screen) at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/SplashScreen Joost, They are all outstanding! Very well thought out and crafted. Any of them

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-26 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: current banner because it includes the version number. Is there a difference between 'banner' and 'splash screen'? (I'm wondering if the wiki page shold be renamed) We should call our mascot "Lydia". I'm not against it, but I'm curious about the

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Steve Litt wrote: It's more a marketing thing, you don't want your software to look too unusual at first sight. Just like with websites, people tend to quickly uninstall things they don't understand. I think the background color is something that makes LyX unique in a

Re: Primary colours of LyX? Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do LyX have some sort of primary colours? Or some kind of colour theme? My company spent money on letting a designer come up with a colour set, where we should try and use a certain combo of colours... Do we have

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: I'd like to have the bird in one way or the other. Smoothing edges, adding something in the background or similar I can live with... A good logo should be recognized immediately. The bird is the only one here that is somewhat unique. I don't know

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: A good logo should be recognized immediately. The bird is the only one here that is somewhat unique. I don't know how it represents the LyX brand and it may be more a mascot than a logo, but in my opinion we should not change the logo unless we get one

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: might be that it associates to creativity, through it's childish appearance. after all i'm just a child playing with toys. Just like the rest of us:-) Guess it really comes down to the kind of users we _want_ :-) /C -- Christian Ridderström,

Password now required to approve URIs on the wiki

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi, Because of recent spam, I decided to see if it helps that we now require a password in order to approve a URI. What this mean is that if you edit a wiki page in order to add a link to an external web page, it does not automatically become a link. First you have click on the text approve

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Steve Litt wrote: Hi Christian, I had been talking about the website. I believe the application itself has perfect color as it exists right now. *LOL* I'll leave this particular discussion, it's just to confusing! /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree. My girlfriend had a suggestion, could we get some design student to do a project related to this? Sounds like a great idea. Any ideas on how we find such a person? She gives the old splash screen a grade of 1

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Steve Litt wrote: It's more a marketing thing, you don't want your software to look too unusual at first sight. Just like with websites, people tend to quickly uninstall things they don't understand. I think the background color is something that makes LyX unique in a

Re: Primary colours of LyX? Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do LyX have some sort of primary colours? Or some kind of colour theme? My company spent money on letting a designer come up with a colour set, where we should try and use a certain combo of colours... Do we have

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: I'd like to have the bird in one way or the other. Smoothing edges, adding something in the background or similar I can live with... A good logo should be recognized immediately. The bird is the only one here that is somewhat unique. I don't know

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: A good logo should be recognized immediately. The bird is the only one here that is somewhat unique. I don't know how it represents the LyX brand and it may be more a mascot than a logo, but in my opinion we should not change the logo unless we get one

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: might be that it associates to creativity, through it's childish appearance. after all i'm just a child playing with toys. Just like the rest of us:-) Guess it really comes down to the kind of users we _want_ :-) /C -- Christian Ridderström,

Password now required to approve URIs on the wiki

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi, Because of recent spam, I decided to see if it helps that we now require a password in order to approve a URI. What this mean is that if you edit a wiki page in order to add a link to an external web page, it does not automatically become a link. First you have click on the text approve

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Steve Litt wrote: Hi Christian, I had been talking about the website. I believe the application itself has perfect color as it exists right now. *LOL* I'll leave this particular discussion, it's just to confusing! /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree. My girlfriend had a suggestion, could we get some design student to do a project related to this? Sounds like a great idea. Any ideas on how we find such a person? She gives the old splash screen a grade of 1

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Steve Litt wrote: It's more a marketing thing, you don't want your software to look too unusual at first sight. Just like with websites, people tend to quickly uninstall things they don't understand. I think the background color is something that makes LyX unique in a

Re: Primary colours of LyX? Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do "LyX" have some sort of "primary" colours? Or some kind of colour theme? My company spent money on letting a designer come up with a colour set, where we should try and use a certain combo of colours... Do we have

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: I'd like to have "the bird" in one way or the other. Smoothing edges, adding something in the background or similar I can live with... A good logo should be recognized immediately. The bird is the only one here that is somewhat unique. I don't know

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