Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Michael Schmitt wrote: - In the Float options dialog, it is possible to select Bottom of the page and Here, definitely at the same time. (Why is the dialog split into two parts at all?) When pressing apply, four options are selected. A few additional comments: 1. The four options are always

Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: 3. If I understand http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet/floats/ correct (the LaTeX-gurus might correct me), LyX should add the following line to the preamble, if you chose Here, definitely: \restylefloat{figure} %% or whatever float it is This is currently not the case.

Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Am Sonntag, 9. September 2001 12:34 schrieb Herbert Voss: the H-option is absolutely tricky! and from my point of view it should never appear! it gives more trouble than andvantages. and a float is no more a float! it's no problem to place a nonfloat-object with or without a caption in any

Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Herbert Voss wrote: Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: 3. If I understand http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet/floats/ correct (the LaTeX-gurus might correct me), LyX should add the following line to the preamble, if you chose Here, definitely: \restylefloat{figure} %% or whatever float it is This

Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Herbert Voss wrote: forget this statement, Lars is right! O.K. sorry about the noise. Jürgen Herbert

Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 12:27:18PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: Yes, I made the background code do the right thing even if the gui is wrong. I am not a gui person, and I have obviously forgot to ask people to help me enforce the placement rules in the gui... are you asking now ? Can

Re: [PATCH] Qt2 frontend doesn't compile...

2001-09-09 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 04:15:14AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: + * sp_base.h: add an include sys/types.h because of what? compile error, it should be possible to include this file alone like we do in qt2. It was complaining about pid_t but the is only because on FreeBSD they

spellchecker failure with odd language

2001-09-09 Thread R. Lahaye
Hi, The spellchecker shows two odd behaviours when the language is not recognized: 1) It pops up a Message dialog first that says something like: | The ispell-process has died for some reason."One" possible reason | [...see attachement for total text...] (this Message dialog is too

qt2 frontend: spellchecker + unknown lanaguage = SIGSEGV

2001-09-09 Thread R. Lahaye
Hi, With the qt2 frontend, calling spellchecker (ispell dutch language), causes the following: Can't open /usr/local/share/ispell/dutch.hash Ispell read timed out, what now? lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. If possible, please read 'Known bugs' under the Help

Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread Garst R. Reese
Herbert Voss wrote: the H-option is absolutely tricky! and from my point of view it should never appear! it gives more trouble than andvantages. and a float is no more a float! it's no problem to place a nonfloat-object with or without a caption in any place of the doc without this

Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Garst R. Reese wrote: Herbert Voss wrote: the H-option is absolutely tricky! and from my point of view it should never appear! it gives more trouble than andvantages. and a float is no more a float! it's no problem to place a nonfloat-object with or without a caption in any place

Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread Garst R. Reese
Herbert Voss wrote: here is an example for table, it's nearly the same for figure: http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/floats/nonFloat.html I'll have a look, if a lyx-layout nonfloat-figure nonfloat-table is possible Herbert But wouldn't that be the same as using the Here

Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Garst R. Reese wrote: How do you get a non float figure or table to show up in the List of Figures/Tables? If I select caption after a non float table, I set Senseless. There's the nonfloat-package (on CTAN), which defines new \tabcaption and \figcaption environments. But you have to play

Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Garst R. Reese wrote: But wouldn't that be the same as using the Here option? Yeah, it no longer floats, but maybe the solution is to move Graphics and Tabular material inside Floats. About half the time (used to be 100%) I create the graphics, then the float and then cut and paste the

Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Spitzmueller) writes: | Garst R. Reese wrote: | How do you get a non float figure or table to show up in the List of | Figures/Tables? | If I select caption after a non float table, I set Senseless. | | There's the

Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Herbert Voss wrote: at this time it may be much more important to eliminate the bugs, than to discuss floats. Agreed. Jürgen Herbert

Re: Bug list - Countdown

2001-09-09 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 12:44:00AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | - There are still infinite table repaintings if the width of the table | is almost equal to the LyX window size (for details see SourceForge) Hmm... (I hate running over to SF to get details), I'd like to see a way to

Re: qt2 frontend: spellchecker + unknown lanaguage = SIGSEGV

2001-09-09 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 12:31:22AM +0900, R. Lahaye wrote: lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught are you running with lyx -sync ? You must for qt2 right now. if not, please obtain a backtrace for me regards john -- We don't have to worry about single players such as Michael Owen or Emile Heskey.

Re: [PATCH] Qt2 frontend doesn't compile...

2001-09-09 Thread R. Lahaye
John Levon wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 04:15:14AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: but this is only because on FreeBSD they have elected to call the qt lib qt2... that is not the case on RedHat. erm, oh yeah (brain crisis). So I need to change it to prefer qt2 to qt. Eek.

Re: [PATCH] Qt2 frontend doesn't compile...

2001-09-09 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 11:12:22AM +0900, R. Lahaye wrote: First Q. of course: do you want LyX to compile out-of-the-box on a FreeBSD system as well? I hope the answer is positive. of course Should we then add some testing against the available qt libs ? Does that need to go in

CVS doesn't compile (2001-09-10)

2001-09-09 Thread R. Lahaye
[...snip...] g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../src -I../../../images -I../../../src/ -I../../../src/frontends/ -I../../../src/frontends/controllers -I../../.. -I../../.. -I../../../boost -isystem /usr/X11R6/include -g -O -fno-exceptions -W -Wall -Wp,-MD,.deps/Toolbar_pimpl.pp -c

Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Michael Schmitt wrote: - In the "Float options" dialog, it is possible to select "Bottom of the page" and "Here, definitely" at the same time. (Why is the dialog split into two parts at all?) When pressing "apply", four options are selected. A few additional comments: 1. The four options are

Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > > 3. If I understand > http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet/floats/ > correct (the LaTeX-gurus might correct me), LyX should add the > following line to the preamble, if you chose "Here, definitely": > \restylefloat{figure} %% or whatever float it is > This is currently not

Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Am Sonntag, 9. September 2001 12:34 schrieb Herbert Voss: > the H-option is absolutely tricky! and from my point of view > it should never appear! it gives more trouble than andvantages. > and a float is no more a float! it's no problem to place a > "nonfloat"-object with or without a caption in

Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Herbert Voss wrote: > > Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > > > > 3. If I understand > > http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet/floats/ > > correct (the LaTeX-gurus might correct me), LyX should add the > > following line to the preamble, if you chose "Here, definitely": > > \restylefloat{figure} %% or whatever

Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Herbert Voss wrote: > forget this statement, Lars is right! O.K. sorry about the noise. Jürgen > Herbert

Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 12:27:18PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Yes, I made the "background" code do the right thing even if the gui > is "wrong". I am not a gui person, and I have obviously forgot to ask > people to help me enforce the placement rules in the gui... are you asking now ?

Re: [PATCH] Qt2 frontend doesn't compile...

2001-09-09 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 04:15:14AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > + * sp_base.h: add an include > > because of what? compile error, it should be possible to include this file "alone" like we do in qt2. It was complaining about pid_t > > but the is only because on FreeBSD they have

spellchecker failure with "odd" language

2001-09-09 Thread R. Lahaye
Hi, The spellchecker shows two odd behaviours when the language is not recognized: 1) It pops up a Message dialog first that says something like: | The ispell-process has died for some reason."One" possible reason | [...see attachement for total text...] (this Message dialog is too

qt2 frontend: spellchecker + unknown lanaguage = SIGSEGV

2001-09-09 Thread R. Lahaye
Hi, With the qt2 frontend, calling spellchecker (ispell & dutch language), causes the following: Can't open /usr/local/share/ispell/dutch.hash Ispell read timed out, what now? lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. If possible, please read 'Known bugs' under the Help

Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread Garst R. Reese
Herbert Voss wrote: > > the H-option is absolutely tricky! and from my point of view > it should never appear! it gives more trouble than andvantages. > and a float is no more a float! it's no problem to place a > "nonfloat"-object with or without a caption in any place of the > doc without

Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread Herbert Voss
"Garst R. Reese" wrote: > > Herbert Voss wrote: > > > > > the H-option is absolutely tricky! and from my point of view > > it should never appear! it gives more trouble than andvantages. > > and a float is no more a float! it's no problem to place a > > "nonfloat"-object with or without a

Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread Garst R. Reese
Herbert Voss wrote: > > here is an example for table, it's nearly the same for > figure: > > http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/floats/nonFloat.html > > I'll have a look, if a lyx-layout > nonfloat-figure > nonfloat-table > > is possible > > Herbert > But wouldn't that be the same as

Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Garst R. Reese wrote: > How do you get a non float figure or table to show up in the List of > Figures/Tables? > If I select caption after a non float table, I set Senseless. There's the nonfloat-package (on CTAN), which defines new \tabcaption and \figcaption environments. But you have to play

Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread Herbert Voss
"Garst R. Reese" wrote: > > But wouldn't that be the same as using the Here option? Yeah, it no > longer "floats", but maybe the solution is to move Graphics and Tabular > material inside Floats. About half the time (used to be 100%) I create > the graphics, then the float and then cut and paste

Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread Herbert Voss
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Spitzmueller) writes: > > | Garst R. Reese wrote: > | > How do you get a non float figure or table to show up in the List of > | > Figures/Tables? > | > If I select caption after a non float table, I set Senseless. > | > | There's the

Re: Bug list - Countdown [Float options]

2001-09-09 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Herbert Voss wrote: > at this time it may be much more important to eliminate the bugs, > than to discuss floats. Agreed. Jürgen > Herbert

Re: Bug list - Countdown

2001-09-09 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 12:44:00AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | - There are still infinite table repaintings if the width of the table > | is almost equal to the LyX window size (for details see SourceForge) > > Hmm... (I hate running over to SF to get details), I'd like to see a >

Re: qt2 frontend: spellchecker + unknown lanaguage = SIGSEGV

2001-09-09 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 12:31:22AM +0900, R. Lahaye wrote: > lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught are you running with lyx -sync ? You must for qt2 right now. if not, please obtain a backtrace for me regards john -- "We don't have to worry about single players such as Michael Owen or Emile Heskey.

Re: [PATCH] Qt2 frontend doesn't compile...

2001-09-09 Thread R. Lahaye
John Levon wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 04:15:14AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > > > but this is only because on FreeBSD they have elected to call the qt > > lib qt2... that is not the case on RedHat. > > erm, oh yeah (brain crisis). > > So I need to change it to prefer qt2 to

Re: [PATCH] Qt2 frontend doesn't compile...

2001-09-09 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 11:12:22AM +0900, R. Lahaye wrote: > First Q. of course: do you want LyX to compile out-of-the-box > on a FreeBSD system as well? I hope the answer is positive. of course > Should we then add some testing against the available qt libs ? > Does that need to go in

CVS doesn't compile (2001-09-10)

2001-09-09 Thread R. Lahaye
[...snip...] g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../src -I../../../images -I../../../src/ -I../../../src/frontends/ -I../../../src/frontends/controllers -I../../.. -I../../.. -I../../../boost -isystem /usr/X11R6/include -g -O -fno-exceptions -W -Wall -Wp,-MD,.deps/Toolbar_pimpl.pp -c