Use Qt 5.9.0 for Mac/Win binaries?

2017-04-09 Thread Scott Kostyshak
Dear all, I would like to propose that we release our LyX 2.3.0 alpha binaries for Mac and Windows with Qt 5.9.0beta1 and that we release our final LyX 2.3.0 binaries with the final release of Qt 5.9.0. I think there is an advantage to releasing the final LyX version with the same Qt x.y version

Is anyone planning to test TL 2017 pre-test?

2017-04-09 Thread Scott Kostyshak
Dear all, Is anyone planning to test TL 2017 pretest? It begins 16 April [1]. I am planning to install it and run all of our export tests. Some will surely fail. And then it will be a question of whether we need to change our LaTeX export. Hopefully we will not, but it is good to plan for this pos

Tentative schedule for 2.3.0 release

2017-04-09 Thread Scott Kostyshak
Dear all, I think there is agreement that master is pretty stable. Besides just a feeling, I think that this can be confirmed by looking at the trac tickets with "2.3.0" milestone and tickets with the "regression" keyword. I propose the following schedule for the 2.3.0 release process: alpha

Re: How far is 2.3.0?

2017-04-09 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 07:06:51PM +, José Abílio Matos wrote: > Now regarding the other issue at hand and looking into history we have that: > > 2.2.0 -> 2016.05 > 2.1.0 -> 2014.04 > 2.0.0 -> 2011.04 > 1.6.0 -> 2008.11 > 1.5.0 -> 2007.07 > 1.4.0 -> 2006.03 > > First the obvious conclusion,

Re: [LyX/master] Length.cpp: add new unit representing \baselineskip

2017-04-09 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Sat, Apr 08, 2017 at 03:30:29AM +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > commit b3b7675f544128ea4bbff564262774533af3598f > Author: Uwe Stöhr > Date: Sat Apr 8 03:30:21 2017 +0200 > > Length.cpp: add new unit representing \baselineskip > > - fileformat change This commit broke the test chec

Re: [patch] fix for bug 10440 (LyX.exe does no longer work on command line)

2017-04-09 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 01:38:49AM +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Bug http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10440 > in at least on Windows a major issue. I agree. > 5 months ago the user "backbone" presented a patch that fixes the bug for me > (see attached). > I don't understand what is wrong wit this patch

Re: [LyX/master] Add support to cross out characters

2017-04-09 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 01:00:07AM +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > However, I still think that we should not leave the WYSIWYM track in favor > of WYSIWYG. The number of strokes is not important within LyX. The user > should see that there will be strokes and that is it. That's exactly the problem: For

Re: prefs2prefs.py not compatible with python3 [PATCH]

2017-04-09 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Sat, Apr 08, 2017 at 08:59:04PM +0200, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 06.04.2017 um 03:10 schrieb Scott Kostyshak : > > > > On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 09:49:13AM +0100, José Abílio Matos wrote: > >> On Saturday, 1 April 2017 06.16.55 WEST Scott Kostyshak wrote: > >>> José, any thoughts? > >> > >> The c

Re: [LyX/master] Work around bug in QTextLine::xToCursor

2017-04-09 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 01:46:32PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 06/04/2017 à 05:05, Scott Kostyshak a écrit : > > To make sure I understand, you are against the attached patch because > > the changes are not as complicated as in the iconv case, right? > > No, I would be against the atta

[patch] fix bug 10270 - allow float placements for rotated floats

2017-04-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
As reported in http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10270 LyX forbids incorrectly the float placement options. The attached patch fixed this. I don't think that a fileformat change is necessary but I could of course do this. regards Uwe src/frontends/qt4/FloatPlacement.cpp | 12 ++-- src/i

Re: [patch] support for fontspec options

2017-04-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
El 10.04.2017 a las 00:44, Uwe Stöhr escribió: And that way I googled around. Googling brings you quickly to the "Script=Devanagari option. So one doesn't need to be a TeXpert to find this. One now only needs an input field for that option. When this is implemented I can update our Wiki pages

[patch] fix for bug 10440 (LyX.exe does no longer work on command line)

2017-04-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bug http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10440 in at least on Windows a major issue. 5 months ago the user "backbone" presented a patch that fixes the bug for me (see attached). I don't understand what is wrong wit this patch and all further patches do not work. Therefore the patch should go in if

Re: [LyX/master] Add support to cross out characters

2017-04-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
El 06.04.2017 a las 11:10, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes escribió: That is not how it works. Actually, I propose to add a rule to our coding rules that says that no code which does not take in account zoom and DPI when drawing should be accepted (with the usual exceptions, of course). I have not hear

Re: [LyX/master] MathsUi.ui: adjust dimensions as requested

2017-04-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
El 07.04.2017 a las 22:19, Guillaume MM escribió: - 411 - 351 + 480 + 350 One should need to rely on the indicative pixel size which does not take into account the platform, dpi and language. This probably indicates that the ui file is broken. I don't understand. I have not

Re: [patch] support for fontspec options

2017-04-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
El 09.04.2017 a las 10:27, Jürgen Spitzmüller escribió: In any case, such features need to be implemented at the beginning of new development cycles, since they need testing and improvement, not at the end of cycles. I don't understand. We are talking about 3 simple line edits. As you can see

Re: [patch] support for fontspec options

2017-04-09 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Freitag, den 07.04.2017, 00:44 +0200 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: > Since many years LyX misses the feature to input options to the font  > loading commands \setmainfont etc. We did not act for 5 years > because  > you said exactly the same as today that it is not the right time: > http://www.lyx.org/trac