Re: Nerdy description of LyX at Macupdate.com isn't useful
Jerry wrote: > > Jerry wrote: > >> With apologies to whoever wrote this description and knowing that I've > >> sounded a little harsh, maybe it would be a good idea to consider a more > >> generally appealing description. I suspect that this idea could be applied > >> in other scenarios to better publicize LyX. > > > > I'm sceptical that anyone affiliated with Macupdate.com is reading this > > list. > > Pavel > > The descriptions on macupdate.com are generally provided by the software > authors/publishers. I suppose in the case of open source software the > description could be supplied by anyone--maybe that is what happened in this > case. However, if someone officially affiliated with the LyX project were to > contact the site's owner with an updated description, it would be readily > accepted. (The software listing is lightly curated and even minor suggestions > by users are read.) Yes, so we grant you to speak as LyX delegate to macupdate.com :) You are part of this community for some time anyway, so do your best... Pavel
Re: Windows Binaries?
On 11/13/2012 06:09 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 13.11.2012 19:23, schrieb Richard Heck: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lyxwininstaller/files/LyXWinInstaller/2.0.5/ Please remove the old version LyX-205-1 and replace it with LyX-205-2. Done. Hello Richard, I just noticed that the old version 1 is still at the ftp page: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.5/ Can you please remove it after you uploaded version 2 of the bundle installer (see my previous mail)? I'll grab it. I'm inclined to leave the old versions on the ftp site, as we leave older versions of LyX, as well. Someone might have reason to want an older version at some point. Richard
Re: Nerdy description of LyX at Macupdate.com isn't useful
On Nov 13, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Jerry wrote: >> With apologies to whoever wrote this description and knowing that I've >> sounded a little harsh, maybe it would be a good idea to consider a more >> generally appealing description. I suspect that this idea could be applied >> in other scenarios to better publicize LyX. > > I'm sceptical that anyone affiliated with Macupdate.com is reading this list. > Pavel The descriptions on macupdate.com are generally provided by the software authors/publishers. I suppose in the case of open source software the description could be supplied by anyone--maybe that is what happened in this case. However, if someone officially affiliated with the LyX project were to contact the site's owner with an updated description, it would be readily accepted. (The software listing is lightly curated and even minor suggestions by users are read.) BTW, macupdate is an extremely popular site to learn about new software releases, not an obscure backwater, and is probably the most popular of its kind for Macs, especially since versiontracker was ruined a few years ago. For example, as of today, it lists 29,352 downloads of LyX. Jerry
Re: Windows Binaries?
Am 13.11.2012 19:23, schrieb Richard Heck: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lyxwininstaller/files/LyXWinInstaller/2.0.5/ Please remove the old version LyX-205-1 and replace it with LyX-205-2. Done. Hello Richard, I just noticed that the old version 1 is still at the ftp page: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.5/ Can you please remove it after you uploaded version 2 of the bundle installer (see my previous mail)? thanks and regards Uwe
Re: #8387: use nicer fonts in splash.lyx
Am 01.11.2012 01:10, schrieb Liviu Andronic: I proposed to use Latin Modern fonts in splash.lyx as: - the default choice of fonts in LyX is bitmap, and ugly This is not true anymore. Please show me a screenshot where the font look pixeld in normal magnification. I most certainly missed that. Last time this discussion was held it was pointed out that the default choice of fonts in LyX was bitmap. This no longer seems to be the case. You misunderstood me. The default font depends on our LaTeX configuration and I guess this is in many cases still the bitmap version of the ComputerModern fonts. I was referring to the fact that almost every PDF or DVI viewer can render also bitmap fonts so that they don't look pixeled. (One only sees the different to vector fonts when zooming in.) regards Uwe
Re: Windows Binaries?
Am 13.11.2012 19:23, schrieb Richard Heck: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lyxwininstaller/files/LyXWinInstaller/2.0.5/ Please remove the old version LyX-205-1 and replace it with LyX-205-2. Done. I noticed that sourceforge had problems so that the bundle installer was not updated. Now it is. Can you please grab the new bundle installer? thanks and regards Uwe
Re: Nerdy description of LyX at Macupdate.com isn't useful
Jerry wrote: > With apologies to whoever wrote this description and knowing that I've > sounded a little harsh, maybe it would be a good idea to consider a more > generally appealing description. I suspect that this idea could be applied in > other scenarios to better publicize LyX. I'm sceptical that anyone affiliated with Macupdate.com is reading this list. Pavel
Nerdy description of LyX at Macupdate.com isn't useful
The announcement for LyX 2.0.5 appeared today on Macupdate.com. Here is the description given there: "LyX is a fully fuctional WYSIWYM (what you see is what you mean) frontend for LaTeX wnich allows users with no programming knowledge to get the full benefits of LaTeX. It differs from products such as TeTeX as one needs to know no code and can simply write and mark any text as a footnote of chapter heading etc., and then hit the PDF button to get a perfectly formatted output." Is this really what should appear as a short description of LyX? It is totally an insider's description and has little meaning to most potential users. It seems that the audience is people looking for a high-end word processor (yes, I said word processor) with capabilities lacking in all other (speaking for the Macintosh world, at least) word processors. To present it as a "frontend for LaTeX" and comparing it to TeTeX will leave most of the potential audience wondering, what the hell is LaTeX and TeTex and why do these people not know basic capitalization rules, and then roundly ignoring it. With apologies to whoever wrote this description and knowing that I've sounded a little harsh, maybe it would be a good idea to consider a more generally appealing description. I suspect that this idea could be applied in other scenarios to better publicize LyX. Jerry
Re: Why do CVS::file_ and SVN file_ exist?
Georg Baum wrote: > It was easy to verify that owner_ is always set. I also made it more clear > that it should never change by making it a const member. I meant that the buffer to which owner_ points to must remain alive. Quick peek at Buffer.cpp shows it should be fine during reload. Pavel
Re: Why do CVS::file_ and SVN file_ exist?
Pavel Sanda wrote: > Georg Baum wrote: >> What do you prefer? > > No hard opinion, but if you are going to ditch it please make sure > that owner_ object is living all the time and does not get invalid for > a critical moment when reloading buffer or so (this kind of robustness > against changes in various bufferReload routines elsewhere would justify > file_ existence). IIRC owner_ is not destroyed at all, but longer time > I saw that code... It was easy to verify that owner_ is always set. I also made it more clear that it should never change by making it a const member. Georg
Re: Error with syctex=-1 and lib/doc/Additional.lyx
Am Montag, 12. November 2012 um 23:48:43, schrieb Kayvan Sylvan > When trying to view (pdflatex, or ps2pdf) the output of > lib/doc/Additional.lyx, I get the following error: > > ! Undefined control sequence. > l.11 \synctex > =-1 > The control sequence at the end of the top line > of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have > misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct > spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue, > and I'll forget about whatever was undefined. > > The complete log file is reproduced here. Any ideas for how to get around > this? Thanks! Maybe you have checked Document->Settings...->Output->Synchronize with Output Kornel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
