Re: *not* everything is an inset!

2007-10-03 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 03:17:09PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > >>But why would you want to have two different charstyles in the _same_ > >>word? If you need that then I would say that this is a use case where > >>you really want to use font attributes and not charstyle. > > > >This

Re: *not* everything is an inset!

2007-10-03 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 03:44:34PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > >That's a very bold statement to make, and is certainly not true of (for > >example) code fragments, where a comma is most certainly not part of the > > char style. > > Then just put it outside the charstyle, something that is

Re: *not* everything is an inset!

2007-10-03 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 04:23:00PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Really? I didn't know that, but then I am not a pro of MS Word. What is I haven't used or looked at MS Word in years. > the equivalent of charstyle in MS Word? I hope you are not talking about > the formatting styles that

Re: CharStyles As Insets: TODO

2007-10-03 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:15:52PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > 4. Inset dissolving should be more intuitive. There should be a menu > item "Remove charstyle"---it doesn't have to be called that---that > dissolves the current (innermost) inset. Maybe there should also be a I believe you can

Re: *not* everything is an inset!

2007-10-03 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:22:00PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > The difficulty is that, if you're already in the inset, you might be > wanting to apply another one. How do you distinguish that from changing > the inset type (which is the most natural thing). You only change anything if there's

Re: *not* everything is an inset!

2007-10-03 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 08:06:18PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: > No need to select... just be inside the inset to be dissolved. It's needed or you can't tell "choose a style, then type in it" from "change this text to be the style I select" regards john

Re: *not* everything is an inset!

2007-10-03 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:33:41PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: > > > No need to select... just be inside the inset to be dissolved. > > > > It's needed or you can't tell "choose a style, then type in it" from > > "change this text to be the style I select" > > > > regards > > john > >

Re: *not* everything is an inset!

2007-10-03 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 07:45:21PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > Of course this would emphasize structure and would not be acceptable > > > by the finger painting faction as that's not what they used to. > > > > How do you expect a reasonable discourse when you characterize your > >

Re: *not* everything is an inset!

2007-10-02 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:30:47PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: There's also the question how all of this gets written to a LyX file. Especially once we're doing XML, it'll be essential that everything be properly nested (unless each character is supposed to be written with all of its

Re: *not* everything is an inset!

2007-10-02 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:30:47PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > There's also the question how all of this gets written to a LyX file. > Especially once we're doing XML, it'll be essential that everything be > properly nested (unless each character is supposed to be written with > all of its

What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread John Levon
I'm a bit confused, I just compiled svn, and there's no style UI. So, that would be what's missing. john

Listings settings

2007-10-01 Thread John Levon
I just came across this. Is there a bug filed on fixing this UI? I'm a bit concerned that new UI isn't getting the review it deserves. cheers john

Re: Listings settings

2007-10-01 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 04:09:24PM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: I just came across this. Is there a bug filed on fixing this UI? I'm a bit concerned that new UI isn't getting the review it deserves. No. What's the problem? We have a list of options that's presented as some help.

Re: Listings settings

2007-10-01 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:03:16AM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: Why isn't this a listbox + tooltips? Because there are 163+ options (and most of them are rarely used). There are ways to deal with this. Edwin is working (AFAIR) on a property editor style interface. Cool. john

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 11:37:43AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: You mean: No gui for constructing character styles? If so, that's right. Right. That's critical before char styles can be said to be done. We lack any sort of layout editor, which we very much need. We also need this; however, it

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:29:14PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: What did you do with the charstyle once you had it? Write it to a file? This I think is the difficult bit. Where are they stored, and how are they transmitted? It's a layout thing won't do... regards john

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:44:35PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by `transmitted' here. But at present, charstyle definitions are stored in layout files or, at least in 1.6.svn, in layout modules, which can be used with different document-class layouts. (This is at

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 06:45:05PM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: I think we will have to store some of then in the document. We already had this discussion. I think we ended with three kind of char You remember that far back too :) john

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 07:02:02PM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: I do. And I'm pinning all my hope on Richard and Martin, so that this crucial feature will eventually become reality. I really hope this will make it into 1.6.0. Me too. I'd be happy to help out with UI design or whatever

What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread John Levon
I'm a bit confused, I just compiled svn, and there's no style UI. So, that would be what's missing. john

Listings settings

2007-10-01 Thread John Levon
I just came across this. Is there a bug filed on fixing this UI? I'm a bit concerned that new UI isn't getting the review it deserves. cheers john

Re: Listings settings

2007-10-01 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 04:09:24PM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > > I just came across this. Is there a bug filed on fixing this UI? > > I'm a bit concerned that new UI isn't getting the review it deserves. > > No. > > What's the problem? We have a list of options that's presented as some

Re: Listings settings

2007-10-01 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:03:16AM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > > Why isn't this a listbox + tooltips? > > Because there are 163+ options (and most of them are rarely used). There are ways to deal with this. > Edwin is working (AFAIR) on a property editor style interface. Cool. john

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 11:37:43AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > You mean: No gui for constructing character styles? If so, that's right. Right. That's critical before char styles can be said to be done. > We lack any sort of layout editor, which we very much need. We also need this; however,

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:29:14PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > What did you do with the charstyle once you had it? Write it to a file? This I think is the difficult bit. Where are they stored, and how are they transmitted? "It's a layout thing" won't do... regards john

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:44:35PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean by `transmitted' here. But at present, > charstyle definitions are stored in layout files or, at least in > 1.6.svn, in layout "modules", which can be used with different > document-class layouts. (This

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 06:45:05PM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > I think we will have to store some of then in the document. > > We already had this discussion. I think we ended with three kind of char You remember that far back too :) john

Re: What's missing for char styles...

2007-10-01 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 07:02:02PM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > I do. And I'm pinning all my hope on Richard and Martin, so that this crucial > feature will eventually become reality. I really hope this will make it into > 1.6.0. Me too. I'd be happy to help out with UI design or

Re: Bold button and others ...

2007-09-28 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 01:03:38AM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: I helped a friend upgrade his lyx 1.3.7 to 1.5.1, and waited for his praises while he played with the new version snip It's because nobody ever finished character styles. It should have gone like this: F: Where's bold? B: Why do

Re: Bold button and others ...

2007-09-28 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 02:16:40PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: Well, as I understand it, LyX is supposed to be a semantic text processor. That's certainly where John's comment was coming from, and mine. But people are not accustomed to thinking about writing that way, in large part because

Re: Bold button and others ...

2007-09-28 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 07:25:29PM +0100, John Levon wrote: We make it kind of difficult to let them be encouraged. If LyX were to An old discussion people might find interesting: http://marc.info/?l=lyx-develm=104974730920332w=2 I accidentally made the mockup 404 though. (From the days when

Re: Bold button and others ...

2007-09-28 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 01:35:49PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: But before text style becomes useful, shouldnot we put bold buttons/menu items back? It is frustrating for new users that this IMHO, yes, but let's not make it difficult to remove again. john

Re: Bold button and others ...

2007-09-28 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:05:31PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: John Levon wrote: Some time ago I posted a list of the big ticket items missing from LyX. I think that character styles is basically the only thing left that's truly crucial What precisely do you think is missing

Re: [PATCH] Return of the 'basic style' menu item and bold toolbar icon.

2007-09-28 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 02:20:39PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: John and Richard agree with this change. Basically speaking, although we should encourage the use of the text layouts, we should not deprive users from these simple, frequently used, functions. It should be a user's choice what to use.

Re: Bold button and others ...

2007-09-28 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 01:03:38AM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > I helped a friend upgrade his lyx 1.3.7 to 1.5.1, and waited for his > praises while he played with the new version It's because nobody ever finished character styles. It should have gone like this: F: Where's bold? B: Why do you

Re: Bold button and others ...

2007-09-28 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 02:16:40PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > Well, as I understand it, LyX is supposed to be a "semantic" text > processor. That's certainly where John's comment was coming from, and > mine. But people are not accustomed to thinking about writing that way, > in large part

Re: Bold button and others ...

2007-09-28 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 07:25:29PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > We make it kind of difficult to let them be encouraged. If LyX were to An old discussion people might find interesting: http://marc.info/?l=lyx-devel=104974730920332=2 I accidentally made the mockup 404 though. (From the days w

Re: Bold button and others ...

2007-09-28 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 01:35:49PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > But before text style becomes useful, shouldnot we put bold > buttons/menu items back? It is frustrating for new users that this IMHO, yes, but let's not make it difficult to remove again. john

Re: Bold button and others ...

2007-09-28 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:05:31PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > John Levon wrote: > >Some time ago I posted a list of the big ticket items missing from LyX. > >I think that character styles is basically the only thing left that's > >truly crucial > > > What pre

Re: [PATCH] Return of the 'basic style' menu item and bold toolbar icon.

2007-09-28 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 02:20:39PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > John and Richard agree with this change. Basically speaking, although > we should encourage the use of the text layouts, we should not > deprive users from these simple, frequently used, functions. It should > be a user's choice what to

Re: Acting on 'Things we do wrong. Part III.'

2007-08-29 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:51:29AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: I am tempted to commit the attached patch. Shaves ~22s off a release build, i.e. roughly 1.2% of total time. Not exactly much, but a dozen of such trivial changes will show... Your rationale is pretty compelling but this should be

Re: Acting on 'Things we do wrong. Part III.'

2007-08-29 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:51:29AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > I am tempted to commit the attached patch. Shaves ~22s off a release > build, i.e. roughly 1.2% of total time. Not exactly much, but a dozen of > such trivial changes will show... Your rationale is pretty compelling but this should

Re: [Patch] One BufferView per Buffer

2007-08-14 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 08:10:10PM +0200, Asger Ottar Alstrup wrote: It seems people have the priorities wrong. I think you need to rank efforts based on how much it brings thing forward per time unit, because LyX is chronically resource starved. Which is why it's a huge problem when

Re: [Patch] One BufferView per Buffer

2007-08-14 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 09:44:07PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: Which is why it's a huge problem when uncontrolled development is allowed (see pretty much ever major LyX release, ever, but *especially* the huge quagmire 1.4cvs got itself into). I come home and find myself in a parallel

Re: [Patch] One BufferView per Buffer

2007-08-14 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 09:46:12PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: It seems people have the priorities wrong. I think you need to rank efforts based on how much it brings thing forward per time unit, because LyX is chronically resource starved. Which is why it's a huge problem when

Re: [Patch] One BufferView per Buffer

2007-08-14 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 08:10:10PM +0200, Asger Ottar Alstrup wrote: > It seems people have the priorities wrong. I think you need to rank > efforts based on how much it brings thing forward per time unit, because > LyX is chronically resource starved. Which is why it's a huge problem when

Re: [Patch] One BufferView per Buffer

2007-08-14 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 09:44:07PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > Which is why it's a huge problem when uncontrolled development is > > allowed (see pretty much ever major LyX release, ever, but *especially* > > the huge quagmire 1.4cvs got itself into). > > I come home and find myself in a

Re: [Patch] One BufferView per Buffer

2007-08-14 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 09:46:12PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > >>It seems people have the priorities wrong. I think you need to rank > > >>efforts based on how much it brings thing forward per time unit, because > > >>LyX is chronically resource starved. > > > > > >Which is why it's a huge

LyX 1.5 review

2007-08-12 Thread John Levon
I didn't see anyone post this yet (so apologies if someone did)... http://www.linux.com/feature/118403 john

LyX 1.5 review

2007-08-12 Thread John Levon
I didn't see anyone post this yet (so apologies if someone did)... http://www.linux.com/feature/118403 john

Re: UI wish/bug list

2007-08-03 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:14:56AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: John Levon wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:24:54PM +0100, Stephen Cornell wrote: I checked to see how other programs behave in this context, and Word, Pages, and NeoOffice simply switched to the already-open

Re: UI wish/bug list

2007-08-03 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 04:39:51PM +0100, Stephen Cornell wrote: If you want to warn the user that the document is not the clean version on disk, perhaps a warning popup `The file is already open OK'. The user is now out of danger... Worst of both worlds I think. I'm happy with either a

Re: UI wish/bug list

2007-08-03 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:24:54PM +0100, Stephen Cornell wrote: `The document blah.lyx is already being edited. Do you want to discard your changes and re-read from disk? Re-read from diskContinue editing With the logic mentioned previously, I think this makes sense, but Continue editing

Re: UI wish/bug list

2007-08-03 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:57:43PM +0100, Stephen Cornell wrote: When trying to open a file which is already open in LyX, the user is confronted with `The document blah.lyx is already loaded. Do you want to revert to the saved version? revert switch to document.' `Switch' and `revert'

Re: UI wish/bug list

2007-08-03 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:14:56AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > John Levon wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:24:54PM +0100, Stephen Cornell wrote: > > > >>I checked to see how other programs behave in this context, and Word, > >>Pages, and NeoOffice si

Re: UI wish/bug list

2007-08-03 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 04:39:51PM +0100, Stephen Cornell wrote: > If you want to warn the user that the document is not the clean > version on disk, perhaps a warning popup `The file is already open > '. The user is now out of danger... Worst of both worlds I think. I'm happy with either a

Re: UI wish/bug list

2007-08-03 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:24:54PM +0100, Stephen Cornell wrote: > `The document blah.lyx is already being edited. Do you want to > discard your changes and re-read from disk? > With the logic mentioned previously, I think this makes sense, but Continue editing should be "Cancel" I think. >

Re: UI wish/bug list

2007-08-03 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:57:43PM +0100, Stephen Cornell wrote: > When trying to open a file which is already open in LyX, the user is > confronted with `The document blah.lyx is already loaded. Do you > want to revert to the saved version? .' > > `Switch' and `revert' are too ambiguous -

Re: Commit Rules Post-1.5.0

2007-07-26 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 07:18:57AM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Furthermore, I'd like to support Richard's idea of finishing the character style implementation. (Yay) john

middle-button paste no longer works properly

2007-07-26 Thread John Levon
Middle-button paste on Linux no longer participates in X. That is, if I select something in konsole, I cannot paste it in LyX with the middle button. Known bug? john PS congratulations on 1.5.0, looks pretty cool...

Re: middle-button paste no longer works properly

2007-07-26 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 09:18:41PM +1000, Darren Freeman wrote: On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 12:08 +0100, John Levon wrote: Middle-button paste on Linux no longer participates in X. That is, if I select something in konsole, I cannot paste it in LyX with the middle button. Known bug

Re: Commit Rules Post-1.5.0

2007-07-26 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 07:18:57AM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Furthermore, I'd like to support Richard's idea of finishing the character > style implementation. (Yay) john

middle-button paste no longer works properly

2007-07-26 Thread John Levon
Middle-button paste on Linux no longer participates in X. That is, if I select something in konsole, I cannot paste it in LyX with the middle button. Known bug? john PS congratulations on 1.5.0, looks pretty cool...

Re: middle-button paste no longer works properly

2007-07-26 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 09:18:41PM +1000, Darren Freeman wrote: > On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 12:08 +0100, John Levon wrote: > > Middle-button paste on Linux no longer participates in X. That is, if I > > select something in konsole, I cannot paste it in LyX with the middle > &

Re: No math dialog

2007-05-22 Thread John Levon
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:57:25PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: John == John Levon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:41:14PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes John wrote: John == John Levon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John This is a somewhat unpleasant workaround

Re: No math dialog

2007-05-22 Thread John Levon
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:15:23PM +0100, José Matos wrote: It makes me wonder somewhat if killing off the dialog was the right thing to do at all... I have no doubts about it, even in terms of user interface it was clumsy, if used the focus would not return to the lyx windows that

Re: No math dialog

2007-05-22 Thread John Levon
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:57:25PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > >>>>>>"John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >John> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:41:14PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes > >John> wrote: >

Re: No math dialog

2007-05-22 Thread John Levon
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:15:23PM +0100, José Matos wrote: > > It makes me wonder somewhat if killing off the dialog was the right > > thing to do at all... > > I have no doubts about it, even in terms of user interface it was clumsy, > if > used the focus would not return to the lyx

Re: No math dialog

2007-05-21 Thread John Levon
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:09:39AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: John == John Levon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John I see the Maths dialog has been removed. Am I right in thinking John that the only way to create things such as sum environments etc. John without knowing LaTeX

Re: No math dialog

2007-05-21 Thread John Levon
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:06:47PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: This menu does not allow us to select the auto setting (actually we could have done that, but we did not :). The toolbars are accessible in ViewToolbar, though. I think we should just set math and table toolbars to 'always

Re: No math dialog

2007-05-21 Thread John Levon
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:41:14PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: John == John Levon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John This is a somewhat unpleasant workaround to the problem and I John don't see why it's necessary. We should just add the symbols to John the menus. In which form? Do

Re: No math dialog

2007-05-21 Thread John Levon
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:09:39AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John> I see the Maths dialog has been removed. Am I right in thinking > John> that the only way to create thi

Re: No math dialog

2007-05-21 Thread John Levon
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:06:47PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > This menu does not allow us to select the "auto" setting (actually we > > could have done that, but we did not :). The toolbars are accessible > > in View>Toolbar, though. > > I think we should just set math and table toolbars to

Re: No math dialog

2007-05-21 Thread John Levon
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:41:14PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John> This is a somewhat unpleasant workaround to the problem and I > John> don't see why it's necessary. We

No math dialog

2007-05-20 Thread John Levon
I see the Maths dialog has been removed. Am I right in thinking that the only way to create things such as sum environments etc. without knowing LaTeX is to turn on the math panel toolbar and use that? This really needs to be available in the menus too for discoverability: it's a basic principle

No math dialog

2007-05-20 Thread John Levon
I see the Maths dialog has been removed. Am I right in thinking that the only way to create things such as sum environments etc. without knowing LaTeX is to turn on the math panel toolbar and use that? This really needs to be available in the menus too for discoverability: it's a basic principle

Re: email-address

2007-02-25 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 06:01:55PM +0100, Hartmut Haase wrote: In http://bugzilla.lyx.org and other places we use the email-address for identification, and it is readable. This makes it easy for harvester programs Just an upgrade would help:

Re: email-address

2007-02-25 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 06:01:55PM +0100, Hartmut Haase wrote: > In http://bugzilla.lyx.org and other places we use the email-address for > identification, and it is readable. This makes it easy for harvester programs Just an upgrade would help:

Re: Grouping the file export menu

2007-02-23 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 03:38:14AM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Today I got a complaint about the amount of entries in the file export menu. And yes, I must admit there are now a bit too much. Is it not possible to remove it altogether and have a combo box on the save menu that lets you choose the

Re: Grouping the file export menu

2007-02-23 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 03:38:14AM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Today I got a complaint about the amount of entries in the file export > menu. And yes, I must admit there are now a bit too much. Is it not possible to remove it altogether and have a combo box on the save menu that lets you choose

drawing error with insets

2007-02-20 Thread John Levon
Insert two footnotes side by side. Open the first footnote and place a note inside it. The box for the not extends past the footnote to the edge of the document. regards john

drawing error with insets

2007-02-20 Thread John Levon
Insert two footnotes side by side. Open the first footnote and place a note inside it. The box for the not extends past the footnote to the edge of the document. regards john

Re: resize grip

2007-02-10 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 07:34:17PM +0100, Peter Kümmel wrote: Could I enable the size grip? There was a reason for that at one point, but I forget what... john

Re: resize grip

2007-02-10 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 07:34:17PM +0100, Peter Kümmel wrote: > Could I enable the size grip? There was a reason for that at one point, but I forget what... john

Re: the new sidebar

2007-02-06 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 02:15:19PM +0100, Edwin Leuven wrote: Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: What do others think? on top. if people want a toolbar elsewhere they can always drag it there i guess. Is there some way to tell lyx to put it on the same line as another toolbar? john

Re: the new sidebar

2007-02-06 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:32:45PM +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Is there some way to tell lyx to put it on the same line as another toolbar? No. But session restores the toolbars on the line you dragged them to. Well, I was thinking of how we make the dvi toolbar default to not using

Re: the new sidebar

2007-02-06 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:46:59PM +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Well, I was thinking of how we make the dvi toolbar default to not using an entire new line... It's not possible. Initially, all toolbars get their own line. However, once you moved the dvi toolbar, say, bhing the main

Re: the new sidebar

2007-02-06 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 05:22:42PM +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Then have we considered making this small toolbar just added onto the first toolbar? You mean: include it in the main toolbar? Yes. But this has the disadvantage that it cannot be switched on/off in toto. What is your

Re: the new sidebar

2007-02-06 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 02:15:19PM +0100, Edwin Leuven wrote: > Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > >What do others think? > > on top. if people want a toolbar elsewhere they can always drag it there > i guess. Is there some way to tell lyx to put it on the same line as another toolbar? john

Re: the new sidebar

2007-02-06 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:32:45PM +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > > Is there some way to tell lyx to put it on the same line as another > > toolbar? > > No. But session restores the toolbars on the line you dragged them to. Well, I was thinking of how we make the dvi toolbar default to not

Re: the new sidebar

2007-02-06 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:46:59PM +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > > Well, I was thinking of how we make the dvi toolbar default to not using > > an entire new line... > > It's not possible. Initially, all toolbars get their own line. However, once > you moved the dvi toolbar, say, bhing the

Re: the new sidebar

2007-02-06 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 05:22:42PM +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > > Then have we considered making this small toolbar just added onto the > > first toolbar? > > You mean: include it in the main toolbar? Yes. But this has the disadvantage > that it cannot be switched on/off in toto. > >

the new sidebar

2007-02-05 Thread John Levon
Whilst I appreciate the reasoning behind the new sidebar, it has an unfortunate side-effect: the scroll bar is now much harder to hit. Especially in full-screen mode, the scroll bar was of infinite width previously. I'd much, much, prefer it to be on the left. regards john

the new sidebar

2007-02-05 Thread John Levon
Whilst I appreciate the reasoning behind the new sidebar, it has an unfortunate side-effect: the scroll bar is now much harder to hit. Especially in full-screen mode, the scroll bar was of infinite width previously. I'd much, much, prefer it to be on the left. regards john

Re: Mildly interesting...

2007-02-04 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 07:36:11PM +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote: Like where? I would be interested. If I would be successful in attracting the next LyX meeting (summer 2007?) to Finland, I intend to apply locally for some support. There are literally hundreds of funds in Finland, but most of

Re: Mildly interesting...

2007-02-04 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 07:36:11PM +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote: > Like where? I would be interested. If I would be successful in > attracting the next LyX meeting (summer 2007?) to Finland, I intend to > apply locally for some support. There are literally hundreds of funds in > Finland, but most

Re: Mildly interesting...

2007-02-03 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 04:35:03PM +1800, Bo Peng wrote: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/3881 Interesting. Do they svn blame every lyx file to calculte comment ratio and main language? I believe so. I hope that I can collect my $55000x0.9 in some way. :-) Me too! I'm a bit surprised I'm

Re: minimum python version

2007-02-03 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 12:15:43PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: I just noticed that I unintentionally raised the minimum required python version by using unicodedata.normalize() for the InsetLatexAccent conversions in lyx2lyx. What are we going to do here? The problem is that normalization is

Re: Mildly interesting...

2007-02-03 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 11:26:56PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Personally I would be interested to do some paid work for LyX. I am running out of contract in 6 month... maybe I'll do a reconversion in the software engineering :-). But something disturbs me a bit... is $55000 a correct

Re: Mildly interesting...

2007-02-03 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 04:35:03PM +1800, Bo Peng wrote: > >http://www.ohloh.net/projects/3881 > > Interesting. Do they svn blame every lyx file to calculte comment > ratio and main language? I believe so. > I hope that I can collect my $55000x0.9 in some way. :-) Me too! I'm a bit surprised

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