freshmeat

1999-02-03 Thread Amir Karger
For some reason netscape can't find freshmeat.net. Strangely, running lynx on my computer in utah or on nazgul *also* can't find it. What's going on? -Amir

Re: freshmeat

1999-02-03 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 12:10:04PM -0400, Garst R. Reese wrote: > I have this problem periodically. Maybe when they get too many hits? I don't buy it. When that happens you might get a "server may be down or unreachable. Try again later." Also, nslookup (even though I don't *really* know what

new home page

1999-02-03 Thread Amir Karger
OK, I've created a new version of the home page. I started with Larry's version of Martin's PR paragraphs. I took the first paragraph and put it in "What is LyX?". Then I added a couple sentences, and moved the LGT back to the top of the page. I think the intro paragraphs are still short enough

freshmeat

1999-02-03 Thread Amir Karger
re larry's message: I suspect they're using the ANNOUNCE, which has unfortunately still got the old text. Sorry! We ought to change it and the README before 1.0.1, but it's too late for that now. Well, at least the site's back up. -Amir

Re: mailinglists on webpage

1999-02-03 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 02:32:49PM -0600, Roland Krause wrote: > That's what I was saying, > if you want the /. dudes attention you'll have to go over the license. > But as Rick is the only one who has a clue about that, I would ask him. > He's the guy who they are going to flame the living crap

Re: mailinglists on webpage

1999-02-03 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 04:03:59PM -0500, Rich Fields at 407.356.5842 wrote: > > I'm glad you said this. I'd never been there before and was > rather appalled when I looked at /. for the first > time a few minutes ago. I wouldn't worry about lack of > coverage from this place... Probably not

Re: www.lyx.org

1999-02-02 Thread Amir Karger
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 12:15:02PM -0500, Larry S. Marso wrote: Are we going to put some kind of flashing banner, or at least some words visible at the *top* of the page, to indicate 1.0 has been released? Well, there ought to be *something*. Here's a potential something. I hope I'm not

Re: Lyx 1.0.0 crashing on view/export DVI pr PS

1999-02-02 Thread Amir Karger
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 03:51:28PM -0200, Pedro Kroger wrote: Hi all, I got the newest lyx, the 1.0.0 release, but I had some problems: As in man page, I set the Enviroment LYX_DIR_10x to the libdir /usr/X11R6/share/lyx in my profile and get the error : LYX_DIR_10x environment variable

Re: www.lyx.org

1999-02-02 Thread Amir Karger
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 01:44:15PM -0500, Larry S. Marso wrote: You have the press release, right? The language, while shorter, should be pretty close. We certainly list a lot of new features in 1.0. The comparison seems fairly to be against 0.10.7, as this is the most widely tried version

Re: LGT-1.0a is now online

1999-02-02 Thread Amir Karger
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 12:21:28PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, (Assume many smiley's in this message - I know it isn't Friday, but it feels like it ...) Asger has graciously put version 1.0a of the LGT online. It really should be v1.1, but I didn't think it was going to be as

Re: www.lyx.org

1999-02-02 Thread Amir Karger
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 12:15:02PM -0500, Larry S. Marso wrote: > Are we going to put some kind of flashing banner, or at least some words > visible at the *top* of the page, to indicate 1.0 has been released? > Well, there ought to be *something*. Here's a potential something. I hope I'm not

Re: Lyx 1.0.0 crashing on view/export DVI pr PS

1999-02-02 Thread Amir Karger
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 03:51:28PM -0200, Pedro Kroger wrote: > Hi all, > > I got the newest lyx, the 1.0.0 release, but I had some problems: > As in man page, I set the Enviroment LYX_DIR_10x to the libdir > /usr/X11R6/share/lyx in my profile and get the error : > > LYX_DIR_10x environment

Re: www.lyx.org

1999-02-02 Thread Amir Karger
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 01:44:15PM -0500, Larry S. Marso wrote: > You have the press release, right? The language, while shorter, should be > pretty close. We certainly list a lot of new features in 1.0. The > comparison seems fairly to be against 0.10.7, as this is the most widely > tried

Re: LGT-1.0a is now online

1999-02-02 Thread Amir Karger
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 12:21:28PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > (Assume many smiley's in this message - I know it isn't Friday, but it > feels like it ...) > > Asger has graciously put version 1.0a of the LGT online. It really should > be v1.1, but I didn't think it was going to

obsolete web page

1999-02-01 Thread Amir Karger
There's a *completely* obsolete web page at http://www.via.ecp.fr/lyx/. For example, it says an equation editor and WYSIWYG figures are being planned, and lists Matthias' page as the lyx home page. I'm particularly worried about this page since it's at via, and people ftp'ing there might try

archive

1999-02-01 Thread Amir Karger
Oh. But if the via web site is killed, the old lyx-devel archive (at via.ecp.fr/lyx/archive) will die with it. I guess the main web page could just be a link to www.lyx.org plus a link to the archive? Or if there's enough room, perhaps the archive could just be pulled to the current www.lyx.org?

web site mirrors?

1999-02-01 Thread Amir Karger
During our recent begging for server space, didn't we get a bunch of offers for web site space? I think we ought to take people up on that. You know, to have a www.us.lyx.org etc. That way, there will be less pressure on people to have (and maintain!) their own web sites, and access will be

mailing.html

1999-02-01 Thread Amir Karger
OK, I've re-re-written mailing.html to show the new mailing lists (again). I also included a note that we plan to change lyx-users soon. If a couple people could proofread it for spelling et al., that would be nice. Then asger can post it. I hope you like my formatting choices. If not, I could

Re: mailing.html

1999-02-01 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 01:39:56PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: Delete --- The only person allowed to post to this list is me, [EMAIL PROTECTED], so if you have something really important that the rest of the LyX community needs to know, send me a message that I can forward.

Re: [MAILER-DAEMON@via.ecp.fr: Returned mail: User unknown]

1999-02-01 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 09:24:03PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, postmaster didn't send me back an "unknown" so I'm assuming that it got there and I can wait a day or so for the response, rather than sending a copy to admin which might annoy whoever gets two copies

Re: web site mirrors?

1999-02-01 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 09:25:13PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: *Amir Karger writes: | During our recent begging for server space, didn't we get a bunch | of offers for web site space? I think we ought to take people up on | that. You know, to have a www.us.lyx.org etc. That way

Re: mailing.html

1999-02-01 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 11:08:14PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: *Amir Karger writes: | On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 01:39:56PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: || Delete || || --- The only person allowed to post to this list is me, || [EMAIL PROTECTED], so if you have something

obsolete web page

1999-02-01 Thread Amir Karger
There's a *completely* obsolete web page at http://www.via.ecp.fr/lyx/. For example, it says an equation editor and WYSIWYG figures are being planned, and lists Matthias' page as the lyx home page. I'm particularly worried about this page since it's at via, and people ftp'ing there might try

archive

1999-02-01 Thread Amir Karger
Oh. But if the via web site is killed, the old lyx-devel archive (at via.ecp.fr/lyx/archive) will die with it. I guess the main web page could just be a link to www.lyx.org plus a link to the archive? Or if there's enough room, perhaps the archive could just be pulled to the current www.lyx.org?

web site mirrors?

1999-02-01 Thread Amir Karger
During our recent begging for server space, didn't we get a bunch of offers for web site space? I think we ought to take people up on that. You know, to have a www.us.lyx.org etc. That way, there will be less pressure on people to have (and maintain!) their own web sites, and access will be

mailing.html

1999-02-01 Thread Amir Karger
OK, I've re-re-written mailing.html to show the new mailing lists (again). I also included a note that we plan to change lyx-users soon. If a couple people could proofread it for spelling et al., that would be nice. Then asger can post it. I hope you like my formatting choices. If not, I could

Re: mailing.html

1999-02-01 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 01:39:56PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: > Delete > > --- > The only person allowed to post to this list is me, [EMAIL PROTECTED], so > if you have something really important that the rest of the LyX > community needs to know, send me a message that I can

Re: [MAILER-DAEMON@via.ecp.fr: Returned mail: User unknown]

1999-02-01 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 09:24:03PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, postmaster didn't send me back an "unknown" so I'm assuming that it got there and I can wait a day or so for the response, rather than sending a copy to admin which might annoy whoever gets two

Re: web site mirrors?

1999-02-01 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 09:25:13PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > *Amir Karger writes: > | During our recent begging for server space, didn't we get a bunch > | of offers for web site space? I think we ought to take people up on > | that. You know, to have a www.us.lyx.org e

Re: mailing.html

1999-02-01 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 11:08:14PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > *Amir Karger writes: > | On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 01:39:56PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: > || Delete > || > || --- The only person allowed to post to this list is me, > || [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: PR-1.0.3... and latexconf

1999-01-31 Thread Amir Karger
[looks great, we all love it, blah blah blah] I have to agree with Larry on the "emacs-style" thing. Why not just say "version control for collaborative authoring". Anyone who knows what version control is doesn't need to be told it's emacs-style, while anyone who doesn't know has at least a

latexconf

1999-01-31 Thread Amir Karger
The latexconf idea is great. Although it seems like LaTeX already has tons of parameters, there are clearly a bunch of lengths and texts which are hard-coded. However, it sounds to me like a major project, which only overlaps with LyX at the later (easier) parts. And we seem to have only a couple

features.html

1999-01-31 Thread Amir Karger
Enclosed please find features.html, slightly rewritten, for the LyX page. The main change I made was to call it LyX 1.0 of course. However, I made other changes which you may or may not like. Links: I removed Henner Zeller's page from the links, since we don't need patch-tracking any more. I

Re: Translation of Lyx to portuguese

1999-01-31 Thread Amir Karger
relationship. Actually, if you read the User's Guide chapter on figures, you'll see that if you only select height and leave width to be "default" (or only select the width and let height be "default"), then the width/height ratio is automatically maintained. -Amir Karger

Re: mailinglists on webpage

1999-01-31 Thread Amir Karger
I definitely hope (at least some of) those changes will be made. What are we going to do about the lyx-users list? Hm. I went to mail-archive.com and noticed that the latest message to lyx-users, with subject "Titlepage Etc." is one I never received. Am I supposed to be subscribed to more

Re: PR-1.0.3... and latexconf

1999-01-31 Thread Amir Karger
[looks great, we all love it, blah blah blah] I have to agree with Larry on the "emacs-style" thing. Why not just say "version control for collaborative authoring". Anyone who knows what version control is doesn't need to be told it's emacs-style, while anyone who doesn't know has at least a

latexconf

1999-01-31 Thread Amir Karger
The latexconf idea is great. Although it seems like LaTeX already has tons of parameters, there are clearly a bunch of lengths and texts which are hard-coded. However, it sounds to me like a major project, which only overlaps with LyX at the later (easier) parts. And we seem to have only a couple

features.html

1999-01-31 Thread Amir Karger
Enclosed please find features.html, slightly rewritten, for the LyX page. The main change I made was to call it LyX 1.0 of course. However, I made other changes which you may or may not like. Links: I removed Henner Zeller's page from the links, since we don't need patch-tracking any more. I

Re: Translation of Lyx to portuguese

1999-01-31 Thread Amir Karger
size; preserving the original width/height relationship. Actually, if you read the User's Guide chapter on figures, you'll see that if you only select height and leave width to be "default" (or only select the width and let height be "default"), then the width/height ratio is automatically maintained. -Amir Karger

Re: mailinglists on webpage

1999-01-31 Thread Amir Karger
I definitely hope (at least some of) those changes will be made. What are we going to do about the lyx-users list? Hm. I went to mail-archive.com and noticed that the latest message to lyx-users, with subject "Titlepage Etc." is one I never received. Am I supposed to be subscribed to more

Re: reLyX.lyx location

1999-01-29 Thread Amir Karger
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 05:53:25AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been looking over reLyX.lyx, trying to decide how to fit it into the main docs. John W suggested putting it in the UG. I think it's really a bit too big for that and doesn't really fit with the style of the rest of

Re: Appendix (was: Doc updates)

1999-01-29 Thread Amir Karger
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 06:19:19PM +0100, Fred Hucht wrote: As LaTeX2e also supports \{front|main|back}matter, which are switching command similar to \appendix, my (second) proposal would be to add the menu Layout-Character... Paragraph... Sectioning (or so)

Re: reLyX.lyx location

1999-01-29 Thread Amir Karger
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 05:53:25AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I've been looking over reLyX.lyx, trying to decide how to fit it into the > main docs. John W suggested putting it in the UG. I think it's really a > bit too big for that and doesn't really fit with the style of the

Re: Appendix (was: Doc updates)

1999-01-29 Thread Amir Karger
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 06:19:19PM +0100, Fred Hucht wrote: > > As LaTeX2e also supports \{front|main|back}matter, which are switching > command similar to \appendix, my (second) proposal would be to add the > menu > > Layout->Character... > Paragraph... > Sectioning (or so) >

oops!

1999-01-28 Thread Amir Karger
forgot the file! #This file was created by karger Tue Jan 26 17:48:36 1999 #LyX 1.0 (C) 1995-1998 Matthias Ettrich and the LyX Team \lyxformat 2.15 \textclass revtex \options aps,manuscript \layout Title Insert your Title Here \layout Author Author1 \begin_float footnote \layout Standard

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-28 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 12:32:38PM -0500, Larry S. Marso wrote: On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:24:06PM -0500, Larry S. Marso wrote: LyX runs on standard Unix platforms, including Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and most proprietary Unix systems. Having taken another look, the above might better

oops!

1999-01-28 Thread Amir Karger
forgot the file! #This file was created by Tue Jan 26 17:48:36 1999 #LyX 1.0 (C) 1995-1998 Matthias Ettrich and the LyX Team \lyxformat 2.15 \textclass revtex \options aps,manuscript \layout Title Insert your Title Here \layout Author Author1 \begin_float footnote \layout Standard Author

Re: Comments on latest LyX-PR

1999-01-28 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 12:32:38PM -0500, Larry S. Marso wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:24:06PM -0500, Larry S. Marso wrote: > > > LyX runs on standard Unix platforms, including Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD > > and most proprietary Unix systems. > > Having taken another look, the above might

revtex.lyx

1999-01-26 Thread Amir Karger
I'm enclosing a new version of templatex/revtex.lyx. Comments welcome. If noone comments, I'll just check it in in a couple of days. (ooh! a threat!) Unfortunately, it looks like revtex 4, which was due to come out in july '98, won't be here in time for lyx 1.0. -Amir #This file was created

revtex.lyx

1999-01-26 Thread Amir Karger
I'm enclosing a new version of templatex/revtex.lyx. Comments welcome. If noone comments, I'll just check it in in a couple of days. (ooh! a threat!) Unfortunately, it looks like revtex 4, which was due to come out in july '98, won't be here in time for lyx 1.0. -Amir #This file was created

Re: reLyXdoc (oops)

1999-01-25 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 07:10:49PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Amir" == Amir Karger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Amir Forgot to attach this! -Amir So, what shall we do wih it? Setting apart the amazing technical feat, Next I'm going to write a perl script to make lyx docu

FAQ

1999-01-25 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 06:54:34PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Th real problem is the we need badly a FAQ and a maintainer which has some time to spare. Or we can maybe set up a FAQ-o-matic at the web page, so that everybody can submit entries. The real problem is that we need a

Re: reLyXdoc (oops)

1999-01-25 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 06:59:31PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Amir" == Amir Karger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Amir #1 is *way* easier, so why don't we do that now. There are other Amir things that we need to do this week (I was hoping I could send Amir in a reLyX with a

copyright

1999-01-25 Thread Amir Karger
Whatever you do with the license, LyX should probably output "(C) 1995-1999". It's currently writing 1998. What if someone takes the code and says we lost the copyright?! OK, it won't happen, but still. I would do the patch myself, but I'm too scared to touch anything with a .C suffix (and now

Re: reLyXdoc (oops)

1999-01-25 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 07:10:49PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Amir> Forgot to attach this! -Amir > > So, what shall we do wih it? Setting apart the amazing technical feat,

FAQ

1999-01-25 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 06:54:34PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Th real problem is the we need badly a FAQ and a maintainer which has > some time to spare. Or we can maybe set up a FAQ-o-matic at the web > page, so that everybody can submit entries. > The real problem is that we need

Re: reLyXdoc (oops)

1999-01-25 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 06:59:31PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Amir> #1 is *way* easier, so why don't we do that now. There are other > Amir> things that we need to do this w

copyright

1999-01-25 Thread Amir Karger
Whatever you do with the license, LyX should probably output "(C) 1995-1999". It's currently writing 1998. What if someone takes the code and says we lost the copyright?! OK, it won't happen, but still. I would do the patch myself, but I'm too scared to touch anything with a .C suffix (and now

Re: pre8 configure wont succeed on IRIX-5.3

1999-01-22 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 06:11:09PM -0600, Roland Krause wrote: Trying to build lyx-1.0.0-pre8 on my IRIX-5.3... When running configure it stops with pocus ./configure --with-extra-includes=/usr/local/include --with-extra-lib=/usr/local/lib ...chugging away for a while ** Can't find

Re: WYSIWYM printing

1999-01-22 Thread Amir Karger
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 08:53:15AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Reuben" == Reuben Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Reuben As well as (or perhaps instead of) specifying page ranges, it Reuben should be possible to give section ranges. This would indeed be a nice thing, and could be

Re: New PR interim as attachment

1999-01-22 Thread Amir Karger
Larry, you've made some very good points. Most of the folks on the devel list have been using LyX for a long time, and it's hard for us to look at it from the perspective of new users, especially ones who don't even know LaTeX. That said, I think it's too late to stop 1.0. The LyXers have been

Re: New PR interim as attachment

1999-01-22 Thread Amir Karger
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 11:32:05AM +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote: "Martin" == Martin Vermeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyway, I am rather lost now. So how to continue? 1. Which text to use as basis for further work. Mine, or Larry's? Yours. Larry's can go into an article and/or the

version control

1999-01-22 Thread Amir Karger
I agree with JMarc. While nice, the version control is basic. It also doesn't work with older versions of RCS (unless Lars fixed it since pre4 or so.) -Amir

Re: pre8 configure wont succeed on IRIX-5.3

1999-01-22 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 06:11:09PM -0600, Roland Krause wrote: > Trying to build lyx-1.0.0-pre8 on my IRIX-5.3... > When running configure it stops with > > pocus > ./configure --with-extra-includes=/usr/local/include > --with-extra-lib=/usr/local/lib > > ...chugging away for a while > > **

Re: WYSIWYM printing

1999-01-22 Thread Amir Karger
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 08:53:15AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Reuben" == Reuben Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Reuben> As well as (or perhaps instead of) specifying page ranges, it > Reuben> should be possible to give section ranges. > > This would indeed be a nice

Re: New PR interim as attachment

1999-01-22 Thread Amir Karger
Larry, you've made some very good points. Most of the folks on the devel list have been using LyX for a long time, and it's hard for us to look at it from the perspective of new users, especially ones who don't even know LaTeX. That said, I think it's too late to stop 1.0. The LyXers have been

Re: New PR interim as attachment

1999-01-22 Thread Amir Karger
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 11:32:05AM +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote: > > > "Martin" == Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Anyway, I am rather lost now. So how to continue? > > 1. Which text to use as basis for further work. Mine, or Larry's? Yours. Larry's can go into an article

version control

1999-01-22 Thread Amir Karger
I agree with JMarc. While nice, the version control is basic. It also doesn't work with older versions of RCS (unless Lars fixed it since pre4 or so.) -Amir

it's its, not it's!

1999-01-20 Thread Amir Karger
The error message in the recent windows port email is misspelled. s/it's/its/ For future reference (and this is a very popular error among Americans and non-): "it's" is an abbreviation for "it is". You use it like "It's a document processor, not a word processor!" Jean-Marc would say

Re: it's its, not it's!

1999-01-20 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 04:21:05PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Amir" == Amir Karger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Amir The error message in the recent windows port email is Amir misspelled. s/it's/its/ I think it was the last important bug that we had in LyX. Now that I

Re: writer

1999-01-20 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 04:36:54PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lars Gains: - simplified code in insets - we ensure that all insets Lars can be output with all different writers - when adding new Lars insets, the compiler will

Re: PR doc interim version on web site

1999-01-20 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 11:46:01PM +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote: Look here: http://www.netby.net/Oest/Europa-Alle/vermeer/LyX-PR.txt Includes the effect of many of your comments up to now, but especially those of Roland Krause. They really helped to make things sharper. (I even took some

it's its, not it's!

1999-01-20 Thread Amir Karger
The error message in the recent windows port email is misspelled. s/it's/its/ For future reference (and this is a very popular error among Americans and non-): "it's" is an abbreviation for "it is". You use it like "It's a document processor, not a word processor!" Jean-Marc would say

Re: it's its, not it's!

1999-01-20 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 04:21:05PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Amir> The error message in the recent windows port email is > Amir> misspelled. s/it's/its/ > > I thin

Re: writer

1999-01-20 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 04:36:54PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Lars> Gains: - simplified code in insets - we ensure that all insets > Lars> can be output with all different writers - when adding new > Lars> insets, the

Re: PR doc interim version on web site

1999-01-20 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 11:46:01PM +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote: > Look here: > > http://www.netby.net/Oest/Europa-Alle/vermeer/LyX-PR.txt > > Includes the effect of many of your comments up to now, but especially > those of Roland Krause. They really helped to make things sharper. > (I even

doc. syntax

1999-01-17 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 05:53:14PM +1000, Peter Drummond wrote: No sweat - appreciate all your efforts at making RELYX work as well as it does! If you don't go the Tex route for a native format, has anyone thought about using XML - its very close to what you have got anyway, in syntax, but

doc. syntax

1999-01-17 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 05:53:14PM +1000, Peter Drummond wrote: > > No sweat - appreciate all your efforts at making RELYX work as well as it > does! If you don't go the Tex route for a native format, has anyone > thought about using XML - its very close to what you have got anyway, in >

disk space

1999-01-14 Thread Amir Karger
I don't know whatever happened to this discussion, but I saw this on slashdot today: "LinuxBox.com is providing free hosting for Open Source developers" -Amir

disk space

1999-01-14 Thread Amir Karger
I don't know whatever happened to this discussion, but I saw this on slashdot today: "LinuxBox.com is providing free hosting for Open Source developers" -Amir

Re: LyX/KLyX mailing lists and PR

1999-01-13 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 12:09:53PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Roland" == Roland Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Agreed. The code freeze is (mainly) in place, altough a few new features have slipped in :) We might want to delay the litterate programming and 'Replace all' features

Re: LyX/KLyX mailing lists and PR

1999-01-13 Thread Amir Karger
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 12:09:53PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Roland" == Roland Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Agreed. The code freeze is (mainly) in place, altough a few new > features have slipped in :) We might want to delay the litterate > programming and 'Replace

Re: (general doc issue)

1999-01-11 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 09:04:15AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cut and paste should be okay but raises another issue. My last doc submissions included a lot of "by hand" linebreaking so things would print well. This resulted in some ERT being inserted into various docs. I did this hoping

Re: (general doc issue) [and now a plea for sloppypar]

1999-01-11 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 10:18:00AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Editors' Revolt to Trim ERT) and optimizing for LyX. Is this ERTERT? :-) Sure. Remember that I"m also a member of the Redundant Redundancy Reduction Committee. url.sty is certainly one option, at least for the URLs. Is

Re: slides

1999-01-11 Thread Amir Karger
On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 06:06:08PM -0500, John Weiss wrote: On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 02:38:21PM -0500, Amir Karger wrote: btw, I *still* think that adding magenta, blue, cyan, and green is adding more colors you don't need. Why not make all slide stuff one color? Am I the only one

Re: (general doc issue)

1999-01-11 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 09:04:15AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Cut and paste should be okay but raises another issue. My last doc > submissions included a lot of "by hand" linebreaking so things would print > well. This resulted in some ERT being inserted into various docs. I did > this

Re: (general doc issue) [and now a plea for sloppypar]

1999-01-11 Thread Amir Karger
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 10:18:00AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Editors' Revolt to Trim ERT) and optimizing for LyX. > > Is this ERTERT? :-) Sure. Remember that I"m also a member of the Redundant Redundancy Reduction Committee. > url.sty is certainly one option, at least for the

Re: slides

1999-01-11 Thread Amir Karger
On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 06:06:08PM -0500, John Weiss wrote: > On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 02:38:21PM -0500, Amir Karger wrote: > > btw, I *still* think that adding magenta, blue, cyan, and green is > > adding more colors you don't need. Why not make all slide stuff one > > col

Re: reLyX.lyx doc!

1999-01-08 Thread Amir Karger
On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 08:55:02AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Excellent idea! And I like the result. Yay! I wish I was so impressive I could impress myself. Well, if you'd like, you can just be impressed by me instead. That will make two of us :) Amir Do me a favor and take a

Re: reLyX.lyx doc!

1999-01-08 Thread Amir Karger
On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 05:03:05PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Amir - other ideas? I'm in excited to be coding mode now, so now's Amir the time for feature requests :) And what about reLyX? g Humph. I recently found out that reLyX can't find \include'd files if you run reLyX on a

ReLyX directores [was: Re: reLyX.lyx doc!]

1999-01-08 Thread Amir Karger
OK, thinking about the JMarc method of putting all lyx files we create in pwd (or -o dir)... There are a couple of different cases where we need to make sure you're not creating two LyX files with the same name. (1) a.tex includes foo/inc.tex and bar/inc.tex. So the LyX filenames we create

Re: reLyX.lyx doc!

1999-01-08 Thread Amir Karger
On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 08:55:02AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Excellent idea! And I like the result. Yay! > > I wish I was so impressive I could impress myself. Well, if you'd like, you can just be impressed by me instead. That will make two of us :) > Amir> Do me a favor and

Re: reLyX.lyx doc!

1999-01-08 Thread Amir Karger
On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 05:03:05PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Amir> - other ideas? I'm in excited to be coding mode now, so now's > Amir> the time for feature requests :) > > And what about reLyX? Humph. I recently found out that reLyX can't find \include'd files if you run reLyX

ReLyX directores [was: Re: reLyX.lyx doc!]

1999-01-08 Thread Amir Karger
OK, thinking about the JMarc method of putting all lyx files we create in pwd (or -o dir)... There are a couple of different cases where we need to make sure you're not creating two LyX files with the same name. (1) a.tex includes foo/inc.tex and bar/inc.tex. So the LyX filenames we create

Re: Update of WHATSNEW

1999-01-07 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 11:05:36AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Amir" == Amir Karger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Amir So maybe the best thing to do is say something like: "Better Amir support (keyboard bindings, keyboard mappings, and/or menu and Amir error messa

Re: Update of WHATSNEW

1999-01-07 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 04:18:47PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: But maybe you should tell me how you foreigners think :) Hey, *you* are the foreigner! No. Maybe je suis l'étranger, or l'homme foreign, or however, you say that. Peter But you're right, in the anouncement there

slides

1999-01-07 Thread Amir Karger
Did anyone check John Weiss' slide patch in the docs (Mike)? How about in lyx-1_0_x/lib/layouts? By the way, I looked at the patch. John, did you misspell visible and invisible? And did you mean the commands to be \lyxinvisible and \lyxvisible? Because in your patch the LatexNames are

reLyX.lyx doc!

1999-01-07 Thread Amir Karger
Jean-Marc has been bugging me to make the reLyX man page into a reLyX document, so that it could be included in the Help menu. (Of course, if you're going to be using the fancy arguments to reLyX, then you need to call it from the command line anyway. But of course all that will change when

Re: Update of WHATSNEW

1999-01-07 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 11:05:36AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Amir> So maybe the best thing to do is say something like: "Better > Amir> support (keyboard bindings, ke

Re: Update of WHATSNEW

1999-01-07 Thread Amir Karger
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 04:18:47PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > >> But maybe you should tell me how you foreigners think :) > > Hey, *you* are the foreigner! No. Maybe je suis l'étranger, or l'homme foreign, or however, you say that. > Peter> But you're right, in the anouncement

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