Re:Invokation of tex2lyx and lyx2lyx

2005-11-22 Thread Georg Baum
Uwe Stöhr wrote: 1) convert test.tex - tmp_dir/_test.lyx (format xxx) (tex2lyx) 2) convert tmp_dir/_test.lyx (format xxx) - tmp_dir/_test_new.lyx (format yyy) (lyx2lyx) 3) load tmp_dir/_test_new.lyx (format yyy) in LyX, when the user sves this file it is

Re: William Leeming

2005-11-22 Thread Stephan Witt
Angus Leeming wrote: I'd like to announce the arrival of William who arrived on Tuesday 15 November, weighing in at 3.55kg (7lb 12oz in old money.) Congratulations, especially to your wife. It wasn't easy getting him out (40 hours labour followed by a Cæsarian) but now he is out both he and

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Georg Baum
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I understand you. The icons I mentioned shouldn't be a problem. They are only used for the installer executables itself and for the lyx-files in Windows file-explorer. That I added/changed some icons in LyX's menu bar is just a special gimmick. I've installed LyX for many

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 08:44, Georg Baum wrote: Having said that I also need to say that I don't think that bigger changes should be done in 1.3.x anymore. The time to integrate tex2lyx for example is better spent in testing 1.4cvs. We should get that out as soon as possible. I agree

Re: Invokation of tex2lyx and lyx2lyx

2005-11-22 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 08:23, Georg Baum wrote: I've never used master/child documents. Ok, if you do that you will notice that tex2lyx will also convert the child documents. This will complicate things if we implement the behaviour above. That is why I suggested to load the documents

Bug 2136 Invalid latex generated with paragraph settings inside no inner box

2005-11-22 Thread Helge Hafting
Reproduce: * Insert a box. Write text inside it. * Bring up box settings, set it to: - rectangular frame - no inner box (necessary) - width = 1 width * Place cursor inside box * edit-paragraph settings * Set something nondefault, such as centering or doublespacing Lyx will now generate

Bug 2137: Box with width=1 width is way too thin on screen

2005-11-22 Thread Helge Hafting
A frame box with no inner box can be set to width=1 width meaning that the box will have the width of whatever it contains. This is very nice for making double-border tables, or higlighting a word with a box. Unfortunately, lyx seems to assume that such a box is a narrow column. Output is

Re: William Leeming

2005-11-22 Thread Andreas Vox
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear all, I'd like to announce the arrival of William ... A little late, but also from me congratulations to you and your family. So can we hope -- since you're awake at night anyway -- there will be continuing and steady input to our LyX project

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Michael == Michael Gerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael I agree. What we could do is backporting tex2lyx to 1.3.7cvs. I think this is too difficult and would require to fork tex2lyx. JMarc

Re: [patch] fix bug 2126

2005-11-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Georg == Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Georg Georg Baum wrote: I tested the patch and it works well for me. OK to apply? Georg Take this one instaed, I forgot to implement Georg LFUN_INSET_DIALOG_UPDATE. Go ahead. JMarc

Re: [PATCH] Re: bug 1952/1953

2005-11-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Juergen == Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Juergen Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: At least, you could move your code that determines what the real text inset is into dociterator.C. Juergen is attached. Almost perfect : 1/ make textInset return an InsetText object; Assert on

Re: [patch] fix bug 2126

2005-11-22 Thread Georg Baum
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Georg == Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Georg Georg Baum wrote: I tested the patch and it works well for me. OK to apply? Georg Take this one instaed, I forgot to implement Georg LFUN_INSET_DIALOG_UPDATE. Go ahead. Done. That leaves 12 bugs to fix

plans for LyX, was: fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Georg Baum schrieb: All valid reasons. My concern is that your LyX will diverge from mainline, and I think that this would be very bad. Why not feed your improvements back to mainline instead of offering them only to the windows people? I'll do. What special things do you mean should be

lyx140cvs: export to html

2005-11-22 Thread Hartmut Haase
This doesn't seem to work at the moment at all. Within LyX the html-file cannot be copied from the /tmp...-directory, and from the command line something like latex2html -no_subdir -split 0 -show_section_numbers file.lyx result in error messages like *** no brace for \end , before: _inset ***

Re: [patch] fix bug 2126

2005-11-22 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 13:58, Georg Baum wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Georg == Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Georg Georg Baum wrote: I tested the patch and it works well for me. OK to apply? Georg Take this one instaed, I forgot to implement Georg

Re: [patch] fix bug 2126

2005-11-22 Thread Georg Baum
Jose' Matos wrote: On Tuesday 22 November 2005 13:58, Georg Baum wrote: Done. That leaves 12 bugs to fix for 1.4.0 (but I fear that we'll discover more...): One of those is http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088 Have you applied your patch? No, since Lars did not want it. It

Re: [patch] fix bug 2126

2005-11-22 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 14:44, Georg Baum wrote: Jose' Matos wrote: On Tuesday 22 November 2005 13:58, Georg Baum wrote: Done. That leaves 12 bugs to fix for 1.4.0 (but I fear that we'll discover more...): One of those is http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088 Have you

lyx140cvs: export to html, 2

2005-11-22 Thread Hartmut Haase
Sorry for the second part, I forgot to convert to latex first. -- Viele Grüße, Hartmut Hungerhilfe: http://www.thehungersite.com Das heutige Motto: The only rose without thorns is friendship.

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LyX-Users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Cc: LyX-Devel lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 9:25 AM Subject: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller Hello LyXers, with the help from many people I'm now

good news from the win95 front

2005-11-22 Thread Luis Rivera
Hello, I am happy to report that LyX137cvs2 actually runs on Win95 (an old 486, 16Mb memory!)... however, with a few caveats, 0/ installer breaks on running configure, as it did before on Win98... 1/ the already reported problems with the fonts in menus, etc... 2/ it only works when the

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Michael Gerz
Uwe Stöhr wrote: That I added/changed some icons in LyX's menu bar is just a special gimmick. I've installed LyX for many people and most of them wanted for example an icon for search in LyX's menu bar and a shortcut to Export - PDF (pdflatex). So I thaught if these small bits make users

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Michael Gerz
Angus Leeming wrote: I compiled 1.3.7cvs with MinGW/MSYS yesterday. I'll package it up using my packager (the packaged version uses 7-zip compression and is *much* smaller than even a bzip2 compressed archive and shove it on the wiki. Tomorrow probably. Thereafter, you can unpackage and

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Angus Leeming
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 22:06, Michael Gerz wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: I compiled 1.3.7cvs with MinGW/MSYS yesterday. I'll package it up using my packager (the packaged version uses 7-zip compression and is *much* smaller than even a bzip2 compressed archive and shove it on the wiki.

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Bo Peng
Are the UNIX command line tools (in particular 'sh') needed for any other purpose than the configure script? If we were able to ignore the shell tools (MSYS), the size of the installer would shrink dramatically, I guess. For configure, you can use the 'experimental configure.py' available at

shortcut to run arbitrary script.

2005-11-22 Thread Bo Peng
Dear list, Since lyx will freeze when view-dvi/pdf etc is running,, 1. Can view-dvi/pdf etc be put into background so lyx will not freeze during latex-ing? 2. Can I define a keyboard shortcut to run whatever shell script I specify? If this can be done, question 1 is no longer a problem since I

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Michael Gerz
Bo Peng wrote: For configure, you can use the 'experimental configure.py' available at cvs, which is for 1.4.0 though. (I do have a version for 1.3.6 but it is less tested, search the list archive for it.) Mingw is also used for four or five small scripts under the scripts directory. They are

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Michael Gerz wrote: Are the UNIX command line tools (in particular 'sh') needed for any other purpose than the configure script? Yes. We currently generate small shell scripts on the fly to control the conversion of graphics files for display. -- Angus

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Michael Gerz
Angus Leeming wrote: Great! Did you use Cutie 2005-10-30 ? (There have been no commit since then) Sure there has. They changed their repository from kde-cygwin to qtwin... Your CVS/Root files should read: :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/qtwin Everything else is unchanged, IIRC.

Re: plans for LyX, was: fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Michael Gerz
Uwe Stöhr wrote: p.s. Angus, Michael, what about the efforts of compiling LyX 1.4 under Win? (Yes I know that I need to lift up my ass and try to compile it for myself.) I build a new LyX 1.4.0 on Windows about once a week. However, I don't know whether Angus has added some magic to the

Re: plans for LyX, was: fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Michael Gerz
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Don't beat me for the following proposal: I can see no reason why tex2lyx need to be backported to LyX 1.3.x. tex2lyx runs fine with 1.3.x as it is. I also think that my LyX diverges a bit from mainline, so I'd like to see 1.3.7 out WITH tex2lyx and perhaps with some of my

Re: good news from the win95 front

2005-11-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Luis Rivera wrote: Hello, I am happy to report that LyX137cvs2 actually runs on Win95 (an old 486, 16Mb memory!)... however, with a few caveats, 0/ installer breaks on running configure, as it did before on Win98... 1/ the already reported problems with the fonts in menus, etc... 2/ it

Re: plans for LyX, was: fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Michael Gerz
Michael Gerz wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Don't beat me for the following proposal: I can see no reason why tex2lyx need to be backported to LyX 1.3.x. tex2lyx runs fine with 1.3.x as it is. I also think that my LyX diverges a bit from mainline, so I'd like to see 1.3.7 out WITH tex2lyx and

Re: plans for LyX, was: fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Michael Gerz wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: p.s. Angus, Michael, what about the efforts of compiling LyX 1.4 under Win? (Yes I know that I need to lift up my ass and try to compile it for myself.) I build a new LyX 1.4.0 on Windows about once a week. However, I don't know whether Angus has

Grammar Checker for LyX.

2005-11-22 Thread John C. McCabe-Dansted
I am working on a grammar checker for LyX. It outputs the errors to LaTeX .log format so it can integrate itself into LyX without need for any modification to existing LyX binary. Three questions. First, I understand that to tell LyX 1.3.6 that a converter generates errors in a LaTeX .log

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Michael Gerz schrieb: Are the UNIX command line tools (in particular 'sh') needed for any other purpose than the configure script? Jep. We need them to list e.g. the TeX-Informations and to invoke ImageMagick. If we were able to ignore the shell tools (MSYS), the size of the installer

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Michael Gerz schrieb: Great! Did you use Cutie 2005-10-30 ? (There have been no commit since then) This should fix our font problems on Windows. Btw. I set the default screen fonts and their zoom now manually in my installer to avoid further problems. I use Times New Roman Arial Courier

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bo Peng wrote: For configure, you can use the 'experimental configure.py' available at cvs, which is for 1.4.0 though. (I do have a version for 1.3.6 but it is less tested, search the list archive for it.) Mingw is also used for four or five small scripts under the scripts directory. They are

Re: plans for LyX, was: fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Michael Gerz schrieb: The list of changes for 1.3.7 isn't very long but we have made a couple of GUI improvements since 1.3.6 that users will appreciate. If we replaced reLyX by tex2lyx (provided that tex2lyx is indeed better in most cases and there are no major bugzilla entries for it) we

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Bo Peng
What would be the advantage? (Getting rid of the MSYS files saves only 1.2 MB and the scripts that use them are well tested.) Using the old windows installer, getting rid of mingw means one less website to visit and one less program to install. With the new installer, yes, you are right, mingw

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Asger Ottar Alstrup
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Btw. I set the default screen fonts and their zoom now manually in my installer to avoid further problems. I use Times New Roman Arial Courier Zoom = 120% Please use Courier New instead. Courier is a bitmap font that scales badly, while Courier New is a true-type font, which

Re: Grammar Checker for LyX.

2005-11-22 Thread Asger Ottar Alstrup
John C. McCabe-Dansted wrote: I am working on a grammar checker for LyX. It outputs the errors to LaTeX .log format so it can integrate itself into LyX without need for any modification to existing LyX binary. Very interesting. I've talken a look at the code - although it's Perl, it is kind

The baby algorithm

2005-11-22 Thread Asger Ottar Alstrup
Dear Angus, Congratulations to you and your family! I can only say that he really does look a lot like you. Normally, babies all look the same, but in this case, there is no doubt that you are the father! I'm sure you are already know the algorithm by now: while (age 3 months) { If

Re:Invokation of tex2lyx and lyx2lyx

2005-11-22 Thread Georg Baum
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > 1) convert test.tex -> tmp_dir/_test.lyx (format xxx) (tex2lyx) > > 2) convert tmp_dir/_test.lyx (format xxx) -> > > tmp_dir/_test_new.lyx (format yyy) (lyx2lyx) > > 3) load tmp_dir/_test_new.lyx (format yyy) in LyX, > > when the user sves this

Re: William Leeming

2005-11-22 Thread Stephan Witt
Angus Leeming wrote: I'd like to announce the arrival of William who arrived on Tuesday 15 November, weighing in at 3.55kg (7lb 12oz in old money.) Congratulations, especially to your wife. It wasn't easy getting him out (40 hours labour followed by a Cæsarian) but now he is out both he and

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Georg Baum
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > I understand you. > The icons I mentioned shouldn't be a problem. They are only used for the > installer executables itself and for the lyx-files in Windows > file-explorer. That I added/changed some icons in LyX's menu bar is just a > special gimmick. I've installed LyX for

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 08:44, Georg Baum wrote: > Having said that I also need to say that I don't think that bigger changes > should be done in 1.3.x anymore. The time to integrate tex2lyx for example > is better spent in testing 1.4cvs. We should get that out as soon as > possible. I

Re: Invokation of tex2lyx and lyx2lyx

2005-11-22 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 08:23, Georg Baum wrote: > > I've never used master/child documents. > > Ok, if you do that you will notice that tex2lyx will also convert the child > documents. This will complicate things if we implement the behaviour above. That is why I suggested to load the

Bug 2136 Invalid latex generated with paragraph settings inside "no inner box"

2005-11-22 Thread Helge Hafting
Reproduce: * Insert a box. Write text inside it. * Bring up box settings, set it to: - rectangular frame - "no inner box" (necessary) - width = "1 width" * Place cursor inside box * edit->paragraph settings * Set something nondefault, such as centering or doublespacing Lyx will now generate

Bug 2137: Box with width="1 width" is way too thin on screen

2005-11-22 Thread Helge Hafting
A frame box with "no inner box" can be set to width="1 width" meaning that the box will have the width of whatever it contains. This is very nice for making double-border tables, or higlighting a word with a box. Unfortunately, lyx seems to assume that such a box is a narrow column. Output

Re: William Leeming

2005-11-22 Thread Andreas Vox
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dear all, > > I'd like to announce the arrival of William ... A little late, but also from me congratulations to you and your family. So can we hope -- since you're awake at night anyway -- there will be continuing and steady input to our LyX

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Michael" == Michael Gerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> I agree. What we could do is backporting tex2lyx to 1.3.7cvs. I think this is too difficult and would require to fork tex2lyx. JMarc

Re: [patch] fix bug 2126

2005-11-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Georg" == Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Georg> Georg Baum wrote: >> I tested the patch and it works well for me. OK to apply? Georg> Take this one instaed, I forgot to implement Georg> LFUN_INSET_DIALOG_UPDATE. Go ahead. JMarc

Re: [PATCH] Re: bug 1952/1953

2005-11-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Juergen" == Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Juergen> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> At least, you could move your code that determines what the real >> text inset is into dociterator.C. Juergen> is attached. Almost perfect : 1/ make textInset return an InsetText object;

Re: [patch] fix bug 2126

2005-11-22 Thread Georg Baum
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> "Georg" == Georg Baum >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> writes: > > Georg> Georg Baum wrote: >>> I tested the patch and it works well for me. OK to apply? > > Georg> Take this one instaed, I forgot to implement > Georg> LFUN_INSET_DIALOG_UPDATE. > > Go ahead.

plans for LyX, was: fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Georg Baum schrieb: All valid reasons. My concern is that your LyX will diverge from mainline, and I think that this would be very bad. Why not feed your improvements back to mainline instead of offering them only to the windows people? I'll do. What special things do you mean should be

lyx140cvs: export to html

2005-11-22 Thread Hartmut Haase
This doesn't seem to work at the moment at all. Within LyX the html-file cannot be copied from the /tmp...-directory, and from the command line something like latex2html -no_subdir -split 0 -show_section_numbers file.lyx result in error messages like *** no brace for \end , before: _inset ***

Re: [patch] fix bug 2126

2005-11-22 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 13:58, Georg Baum wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >> "Georg" == Georg Baum > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> writes: > > > > Georg> Georg Baum wrote: > >>> I tested the patch and it works well for me. OK to apply? > > > > Georg> Take this one instaed, I

Re: [patch] fix bug 2126

2005-11-22 Thread Georg Baum
Jose' Matos wrote: > On Tuesday 22 November 2005 13:58, Georg Baum wrote: >> Done. That leaves 12 bugs to fix for 1.4.0 (but I fear that we'll >> discover more...): > > One of those is http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088 > > Have you applied your patch? No, since Lars did not want

Re: [patch] fix bug 2126

2005-11-22 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 14:44, Georg Baum wrote: > Jose' Matos wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 November 2005 13:58, Georg Baum wrote: > >> Done. That leaves 12 bugs to fix for 1.4.0 (but I fear that we'll > >> discover more...): > > > > One of those is http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088 >

lyx140cvs: export to html, 2

2005-11-22 Thread Hartmut Haase
Sorry for the second part, I forgot to convert to latex first. -- Viele Grüße, Hartmut Hungerhilfe: http://www.thehungersite.com Das heutige Motto: The only rose without thorns is friendship.

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LyX-Users" Cc: "LyX-Devel" Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 9:25 AM Subject: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller Hello LyXers, with the help from many

good news from the win95 front

2005-11-22 Thread Luis Rivera
Hello, I am happy to report that LyX137cvs2 actually runs on Win95 (an old 486, 16Mb memory!)... however, with a few caveats, 0/ installer breaks on running configure, as it did before on Win98... 1/ the already reported problems with the fonts in menus, etc... 2/ it only works when the

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Michael Gerz
Uwe Stöhr wrote: That I added/changed some icons in LyX's menu bar is just a special gimmick. I've installed LyX for many people and most of them wanted for example an icon for "search" in LyX's menu bar and a shortcut to Export -> PDF (pdflatex). So I thaught if these small bits make users

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Michael Gerz
Angus Leeming wrote: I compiled 1.3.7cvs with MinGW/MSYS yesterday. I'll package it up using "my" packager (the packaged version uses 7-zip compression and is *much* smaller than even a bzip2 compressed archive and shove it on the wiki. Tomorrow probably. Thereafter, you can unpackage and

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Angus Leeming
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 22:06, Michael Gerz wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: > >I compiled 1.3.7cvs with MinGW/MSYS yesterday. I'll package it up using > >"my" packager (the packaged version uses 7-zip compression and is *much* > >smaller than even a bzip2 compressed archive and shove it on the

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Bo Peng
> Are the UNIX command line tools (in particular 'sh') needed for any > other purpose than the "configure" script? If we were able to ignore the > shell tools (MSYS), the size of the installer would shrink dramatically, > I guess. For configure, you can use the 'experimental configure.py'

shortcut to run arbitrary script.

2005-11-22 Thread Bo Peng
Dear list, Since lyx will freeze when view->dvi/pdf etc is running,, 1. Can view->dvi/pdf etc be put into background so lyx will not freeze during latex-ing? 2. Can I define a keyboard shortcut to run whatever shell script I specify? If this can be done, question 1 is no longer a problem since

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Michael Gerz
Bo Peng wrote: For configure, you can use the 'experimental configure.py' available at cvs, which is for 1.4.0 though. (I do have a version for 1.3.6 but it is less tested, search the list archive for it.) Mingw is also used for four or five small scripts under the scripts directory. They are

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Michael Gerz wrote: > Are the UNIX command line tools (in particular 'sh') needed for any > other purpose than the "configure" script? Yes. We currently generate small shell scripts on the fly to control the conversion of graphics files for display. -- Angus

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Michael Gerz
Angus Leeming wrote: Great! Did you use Cutie > 2005-10-30 ? (There have been no commit since then) Sure there has. They changed their repository from kde-cygwin to qtwin... Your CVS/Root files should read: :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/qtwin Everything else is unchanged, IIRC.

Re: plans for LyX, was: fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Michael Gerz
Uwe Stöhr wrote: p.s. Angus, Michael, what about the efforts of compiling LyX 1.4 under Win? (Yes I know that I need to lift up my ass and try to compile it for myself.) I build a new LyX 1.4.0 on Windows about once a week. However, I don't know whether Angus has added some magic to the

Re: plans for LyX, was: fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Michael Gerz
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Don't beat me for the following proposal: I can see no reason why tex2lyx need to be backported to LyX 1.3.x. tex2lyx runs fine with 1.3.x as it is. I also think that my LyX diverges a bit from mainline, so I'd like to see 1.3.7 out WITH tex2lyx and perhaps with some of my

Re: good news from the win95 front

2005-11-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Luis Rivera wrote: Hello, I am happy to report that LyX137cvs2 actually runs on Win95 (an old 486, 16Mb memory!)... however, with a few caveats, 0/ installer breaks on running configure, as it did before on Win98... 1/ the already reported problems with the fonts in menus, etc... 2/ it

Re: plans for LyX, was: fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Michael Gerz
Michael Gerz wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Don't beat me for the following proposal: I can see no reason why tex2lyx need to be backported to LyX 1.3.x. tex2lyx runs fine with 1.3.x as it is. I also think that my LyX diverges a bit from mainline, so I'd like to see 1.3.7 out WITH tex2lyx and

Re: plans for LyX, was: fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Michael Gerz wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: p.s. Angus, Michael, what about the efforts of compiling LyX 1.4 under Win? (Yes I know that I need to lift up my ass and try to compile it for myself.) I build a new LyX 1.4.0 on Windows about once a week. However, I don't know whether Angus has

Grammar Checker for LyX.

2005-11-22 Thread John C. McCabe-Dansted
I am working on a grammar checker for LyX. It outputs the errors to LaTeX .log format so it can integrate itself into LyX without need for any modification to existing LyX binary. Three questions. First, I understand that to tell LyX 1.3.6 that a converter generates errors in a LaTeX .log

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Michael Gerz schrieb: Are the UNIX command line tools (in particular 'sh') needed for any other purpose than the "configure" script? Jep. We need them to list e.g. the TeX-Informations and to invoke ImageMagick. If we were able to ignore the shell tools (MSYS), the size of the installer

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Michael Gerz schrieb: Great! Did you use Cutie > 2005-10-30 ? (There have been no commit since then) This should fix our font problems on Windows. Btw. I set the default screen fonts and their zoom now manually in my installer to avoid further problems. I use Times New Roman Arial Courier

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bo Peng wrote: For configure, you can use the 'experimental configure.py' available at cvs, which is for 1.4.0 though. (I do have a version for 1.3.6 but it is less tested, search the list archive for it.) Mingw is also used for four or five small scripts under the scripts directory. They are

Re: plans for LyX, was: fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Michael Gerz schrieb: The list of changes for 1.3.7 isn't very long but we have made a couple of GUI improvements since 1.3.6 that users will appreciate. If we replaced reLyX by tex2lyx (provided that tex2lyx is indeed better in most cases and there are no major bugzilla entries for it) we

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Bo Peng
> What would be the advantage? > (Getting rid of the MSYS files saves only 1.2 MB and the scripts that > use them are well tested.) Using the old windows installer, getting rid of mingw means one less website to visit and one less program to install. With the new installer, yes, you are right,

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Asger Ottar Alstrup
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Btw. I set the default screen fonts and their zoom now manually in my installer to avoid further problems. I use Times New Roman Arial Courier Zoom = 120% Please use "Courier New" instead. "Courier" is a bitmap font that scales badly, while Courier New is a true-type font,

Re: Grammar Checker for LyX.

2005-11-22 Thread Asger Ottar Alstrup
John C. McCabe-Dansted wrote: I am working on a grammar checker for LyX. It outputs the errors to LaTeX .log format so it can integrate itself into LyX without need for any modification to existing LyX binary. Very interesting. I've talken a look at the code - although it's Perl, it is kind

The baby algorithm

2005-11-22 Thread Asger Ottar Alstrup
Dear Angus, Congratulations to you and your family! I can only say that he really does look a lot like you. Normally, babies all look the same, but in this case, there is no doubt that you are the father! I'm sure you are already know the algorithm by now: while (age < 3 months) {