Re: Rename 666 to TEX

2001-08-03 Thread Herbert Voss
Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:36:10AM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote: > > Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > > > > > Let's just keep it as it is now: "ERT" Encapsulated Raw Text > > > > > > Okokok... > > > > I thought you are the math guru, why don't you write > > > > $ok^3\

Re: Rename 666 to TEX

2001-08-03 Thread Herbert Voss
Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > Let's just keep it as it is now: "ERT" Encapsulated Raw Text > > Okokok... I thought you are the math guru, why don't you write $ok^3\ldot$ i see, the problem is the first uppercase letter ... Herbert :-) -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/

Re: Rename 666 to TEX

2001-08-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
> admitting that LyX can't do it all and providing some way of getting > under the hood. I always felt that the whole "EvilRedText" thing was > just an apeasement of the M$ Word crowd, anyhow. > > Still, "Raw" or "PassThru" seems fine by me. Go for 'Raw'. This way we would spare us a flame war

Re: Rename 666 to TEX

2001-07-30 Thread Mike Ressler
On 30 Jul 2001, Lars Gullik [iso-8859-1] Bjønnes wrote: > "Kayvan A. Sylvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | I think it was the brain-fart from Lars(?) who proposed re-defining > | the ERT acronym to mean Embedded Raw Text. > > Nope... I just come to the conclusion that "ERT" would be the best >

Re: Rename 666 to TEX

2001-07-30 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 11:36:49PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > Amazingly it seems like we have reached a kind of consensus that ERT is > better than 666, and this within two days! What the fuck? I had expected this > thread to continue for weeks!?! Normally trivial details take foreve

Re: Rename 666 to TEX

2001-07-30 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
Amazingly it seems like we have reached a kind of consensus that ERT is better than 666, and this within two days! What the fuck? I had expected this thread to continue for weeks!?! Normally trivial details take forever to settle because everybody has an opinion. Hmm. I have to practice that mind

Re: Rename 666 to TEX

2001-07-30 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 09:28:18PM +0200, Ronny Buchmann wrote: > * Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-07-30 16:26] schrieb: > > > | Only to those people who know all the various in-jokes and references. > > > > > > eh? '666'? > > > > > > what do _you_ think/assosiate when you see "666"? >

Re: Rename 666 to TEX

2001-07-30 Thread Ronny Buchmann
* Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-07-30 16:26] schrieb: > > | Only to those people who know all the various in-jokes and references. > > > > eh? '666'? > > > > what do _you_ think/assosiate when you see "666"? > i only think "hä, was is los?" or for non germans "what? what's going on he

Re: Rename 666 to TEX

2001-07-30 Thread Herbert Voss
"Garst R. Reese" wrote: > > Mike Ressler wrote: > > > > On 30 Jul 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > > > > "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Lars> Or just change the "ERT" acronym to be something else. Eloquent > > > Lars> Red Text, Encumbering Red Tex

Re: Rename 666 to TEX

2001-07-30 Thread Garst R. Reese
Mike Ressler wrote: > > On 30 Jul 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > > "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Lars> Or just change the "ERT" acronym to be something else. Eloquent > > Lars> Red Text, Encumbering Red Text, Extension Red Text... > > > > Encapsul

Re: Rename 666 to TEX

2001-07-30 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 04:31:28PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | I had to explain '666' more than once and I do think 'Raw' is a much better > | name of that beast. > > pun intended? > > Why not just rename the inset label to "The Beast" "the wickedest inset in the world" john -- "I

Re: Rename 666 to TEX

2001-07-30 Thread Andre Poenitz
> | I had to explain '666' more than once and I do think 'Raw' is a much better > | name of that beast. > > pun intended? Sure... puns are not frowned upon hereabout... > Why not just rename the inset label to "The Beast" For exactly the same raeson. _I_ would not know what 'The Beast' is in c

Re: Rename 666 to TEX

2001-07-30 Thread Andre Poenitz
> | Only to those people who know all the various in-jokes and references. > > eh? '666'? > > what do _you_ think/assosiate when you see "666"? Actually, knowledge about the deeper meaning of '666' seems not to be too widespread among all the supporters of a few 'other' religions and the atheis

Re: Rename 666 to TEX

2001-07-30 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 03:27:06PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | To me, though, markup seems like it's even more marked up than LyX, not more > | raw. I'd go with raw. > > I still think '666' gives the right assosiations. Only to those people

Re: Rename 666 to TEX

2001-07-30 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 03:41:35PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > > > The "TeX inset" on the other hand, is clear and intuitive. > > In a DocBook document "TeX" won't make much sense. Whoa. Never thought of that. In my mind, the LyX backend is always La

Re: Rename 666 to TEX

2001-07-30 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 29-Jul-2001 Garst R. Reese wrote: >> TeX is better, because it's no more like the eval red text. > It goes away anyway. I like the 666, maybe the same people trying to ban > Harry Potter will give lyx some publicity also :) Oh you have the same problems there, people seeing "Harry Potter" as

Re: Rename 666 to TEX

2001-07-29 Thread Allan Rae
On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 08:14:41PM -0400, Amir Karger wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 10:23:53AM -0300, Garst R. Reese wrote: > > > Herbert Voss wrote: > > > > > > > > "Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > The 666 name is fun, but

Re: Rename 666 to TEX

2001-07-29 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 08:14:41PM -0400, Amir Karger wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 10:23:53AM -0300, Garst R. Reese wrote: > > Herbert Voss wrote: > > > > > > "Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" wrote: > > > > > > > > The 666 name is fun, but not very intuitive/informative. What about > > > > changing

Re: Rename 666 to TEX

2001-07-29 Thread Amir Karger
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 10:23:53AM -0300, Garst R. Reese wrote: > Herbert Voss wrote: > > > > "Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" wrote: > > > > > > The 666 name is fun, but not very intuitive/informative. What about > > > changing it to TEX? Failing that, we should at least use ERT, which > > > is not ve

Re: Rename 666 to TEX

2001-07-29 Thread Garst R. Reese
Herbert Voss wrote: > > "Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" wrote: > > > > The 666 name is fun, but not very intuitive/informative. What about > > changing it to TEX? Failing that, we should at least use ERT, which > > is not very intuitive either, but at least more established? > > TeX is better, becaus

Re: Rename 666 to TEX

2001-07-29 Thread Herbert Voss
"Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" wrote: > > The 666 name is fun, but not very intuitive/informative. What about > changing it to TEX? Failing that, we should at least use ERT, which > is not very intuitive either, but at least more established? TeX is better, because it's no more like the eval red tex

Re: Rename 666 to TEX

2001-07-29 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 02:32:00PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > Hi, > > The 666 name is fun, but not very intuitive/informative. What about > changing it to TEX? Failing that, we should at least use ERT, which > is not very intuitive either, but at least more established? > > Greets

Rename 666 to TEX

2001-07-29 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
Hi, The 666 name is fun, but not very intuitive/informative. What about changing it to TEX? Failing that, we should at least use ERT, which is not very intuitive either, but at least more established? Greets, Asger