Re: questions to be able to update the docs

2011-08-08 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Uwe Stöhr wrote: 1. What is the difference between export formats LaTeX(pdflatex), LaTeX(XeTeX) and LaTeX(LuaTeX). I know what the pdflatex variant is doing, but what do the other variants do compared to pdflatex? The different processors need some different LaTeX output. The most visible

LiveCD space and gcc-4.6's whole program optimization.

2011-08-08 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
Apparently executable size can shrink by over a third when compiled with -flto + -fuse-linker-plugin + -fwholeprogram and other performance neutral optimizations can be used to shrink executable size further, to 60% of original. (See [1]) Rebuilding executables with ftlo could be another

Re: questions to be able to update the docs

2011-08-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 08.08.2011 09:01, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: 1. What is the difference between export formats LaTeX(pdflatex), LaTeX(XeTeX) and LaTeX(LuaTeX). I know what the pdflatex variant is doing, but what do the other variants do compared to pdflatex? The different processors need some different

Re: questions to be able to update the docs

2011-08-08 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Uwe Stöhr wrote: We need it to export from LyX to anything. I suppose it's only useful in the export dialog if you use the send to feature (i.e. enter a command in the dialog's lower widget). How does the send to feature works? This is the first time I hear that LyX offers this. We have

Re: small feature request - center graphics

2011-08-08 Thread James Sutherland
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: Am 04.08.2011 18:42, schrieb James Sutherland: I would like to request that floating graphics and table environments be centered by default. They are currently left-justified. This is particularly awkward since the caption

Re: About our bug in treating spaces from copied text

2011-08-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 06.08.2011 17:40, schrieb Uwe Stöhr: The attached patch fixes point 1. and the tabulator issue. curious questions: is style.free_spacing == true only for LyX-Code (i.e. can't we break some other environments by sudden replacing ~ - '\ ' ? + // we need a normal space

Re: Fwd: Re: Image Lifecycle (Create) Patch - Video

2011-08-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: In the case, what further changes/improvements would be needed, and when currently i'm no more able to insert .eps figs without some warning messages about It was not possible to infer the format from the file contents or its name. edit/create is not enabled even when

Anyone on Qt 4.8 prerelease? (was: 2.0.1 milestone bugs)

2011-08-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 06.08.2011 18:59, schrieb Pavel Sanda: is there any objections if i retarget some months or even yers old bugs with 2.0.1 milestone to 2.0.x? No. Please go on if Richard agrees too because this will allow us to have a better overview about pending patches etc.. done, i

Re: Anyone on Qt 4.8 prerelease? (was: 2.0.1 milestone bugs)

2011-08-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
Pavel Sanda wrote: there is one bug == http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7695

Re: Anyone on Qt 4.8 prerelease?

2011-08-08 Thread Richard Heck
On 08/08/2011 02:46 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 06.08.2011 18:59, schrieb Pavel Sanda: is there any objections if i retarget some months or even yers old bugs with 2.0.1 milestone to 2.0.x? No. Please go on if Richard agrees too because this will allow us to have a better

Re: Anyone on Qt 4.8 prerelease?

2011-08-08 Thread Richard Heck
On 08/08/2011 02:46 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 06.08.2011 18:59, schrieb Pavel Sanda: is there any objections if i retarget some months or even yers old bugs with 2.0.1 milestone to 2.0.x? No. Please go on if Richard agrees too because this will allow us to have a better

second round: questions to be able to update the docs

2011-08-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 08.08.2011 05:24, schrieb Uwe Stöhr: I'm currently finishing the doc update for 2.0.x. For some new features I need your help: 8. What does the language package setting automatic in the menu Document-Settings-Language do? I played a bit but the language package is always babel. Is there

Re: second round: questions to be able to update the docs

2011-08-08 Thread Richard Heck
On 08/08/2011 10:50 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: 13. In http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20#modules there is the entry for fixltx2e. This module does only add \usepackage{fixltx2e} to the preamble, but this could also be done before. What is the benefit of this module. I think it was added just to

Re: second round: questions to be able to update the docs

2011-08-08 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Richard Heck wrote: 14. In the document settings one can set different bibliography generators. What are the differences between biber, bibtex and bibtex8? bibtex8 allows 8-bit characters; biber (which is written in Perl) allows full Unicode. bibtex itself will sometimes tolerate both but

Re: questions to be able to update the docs

2011-08-08 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > 1. What is the difference between export formats LaTeX(pdflatex), > LaTeX(XeTeX) and LaTeX(LuaTeX). I know what the pdflatex variant is doing, > but what do the other variants do compared to pdflatex? The different processors need some different LaTeX output. The most visible

LiveCD space and gcc-4.6's whole program optimization.

2011-08-08 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
Apparently executable size can shrink by over a third when compiled with -flto + -fuse-linker-plugin + -fwholeprogram and other performance neutral optimizations can be used to shrink executable size further, to 60% of original. (See [1]) Rebuilding executables with ftlo could be another

Re: questions to be able to update the docs

2011-08-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 08.08.2011 09:01, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: 1. What is the difference between export formats LaTeX(pdflatex), LaTeX(XeTeX) and LaTeX(LuaTeX). I know what the pdflatex variant is doing, but what do the other variants do compared to pdflatex? The different processors need some different

Re: questions to be able to update the docs

2011-08-08 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > We need it to export from LyX to anything. I suppose it's only useful in > > the export dialog if you use the "send to" feature (i.e. enter a > > command in the dialog's lower widget). > > How does the "send to" feature works? This is the first time I hear that LyX > offers

Re: small feature request - center graphics

2011-08-08 Thread James Sutherland
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 04.08.2011 18:42, schrieb James Sutherland: > > > I would like to request that floating graphics and table environments be >> centered by default. They are currently left-justified. This is >> particularly awkward since

Re: About our bug in treating spaces from copied text

2011-08-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 06.08.2011 17:40, schrieb Uwe Stöhr: > >> The attached patch fixes point 1. and the tabulator issue. curious questions: is style.free_spacing == true only for LyX-Code (i.e. can't we break some other environments by sudden replacing ~ -> '\ ' ? > + // we need a normal

Re: Fwd: Re: Image Lifecycle (Create) Patch - Video

2011-08-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > In the case, what further changes/improvements would be needed, and when currently i'm no more able to insert .eps figs without some warning messages about "It was not possible to infer the format from the file contents or its name." edit/create is not enabled even

Anyone on Qt 4.8 prerelease? (was: 2.0.1 milestone bugs)

2011-08-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 06.08.2011 18:59, schrieb Pavel Sanda: > >> is there any objections if i retarget some months or even yers old >> bugs with 2.0.1 milestone to 2.0.x? > > No. Please go on if Richard agrees too because this will allow us to have a > better overview about pending patches etc..

Re: Anyone on Qt 4.8 prerelease? (was: 2.0.1 milestone bugs)

2011-08-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
Pavel Sanda wrote: > there is one bug == http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7695

Re: Anyone on Qt 4.8 prerelease?

2011-08-08 Thread Richard Heck
On 08/08/2011 02:46 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> Am 06.08.2011 18:59, schrieb Pavel Sanda: >> >>> is there any objections if i retarget some months or even yers old >>> bugs with 2.0.1 milestone to 2.0.x? >> No. Please go on if Richard agrees too because this will allow us to have

Re: Anyone on Qt 4.8 prerelease?

2011-08-08 Thread Richard Heck
On 08/08/2011 02:46 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> Am 06.08.2011 18:59, schrieb Pavel Sanda: >> >>> is there any objections if i retarget some months or even yers old >>> bugs with 2.0.1 milestone to 2.0.x? >> No. Please go on if Richard agrees too because this will allow us to have

second round: questions to be able to update the docs

2011-08-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 08.08.2011 05:24, schrieb Uwe Stöhr: I'm currently finishing the doc update for 2.0.x. For some new features I need your help: 8. What does the language package setting "automatic" in the menu Document->Settings->Language do? I played a bit but the language package is always babel. Is

Re: second round: questions to be able to update the docs

2011-08-08 Thread Richard Heck
On 08/08/2011 10:50 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > 13. In http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20#modules there is the entry > for fixltx2e. This module does only add \usepackage{fixltx2e} to the > preamble, but this could also be done before. What is the benefit of > this module. > I think it was added just

Re: second round: questions to be able to update the docs

2011-08-08 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Richard Heck wrote: > > 14. In the document settings one can set different bibliography > > generators. What are the differences between biber, bibtex and bibtex8? > > bibtex8 allows 8-bit characters; biber (which is written in Perl) allows > full Unicode. bibtex itself will sometimes tolerate