Re: Feature request (Grammarly support for LYX)

2022-09-27 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, 22 Sept 2022 at 06:09, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Another solution is LanguageTool. > And LyX-GC already supports LanguageTool -- John C. McCabe-Dansted -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel

Re: Status of grammar checking integration (lyx-gc)

2018-05-30 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On 29 May 2018 at 21:55, mn wrote: > What is the status of the optional (external?) feature "grammar > checking" and is their a plan to add proper support for this? > > The parts in question are here: > https://github.com/gmatht/lyx-gc > https://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX-GrammarChecker > > Trying

Re: LyX 2.1.5 Tarballs

2016-06-24 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
https://www.lyx.org/Download lists the LyX 2.2 Windows Installer as XP/Vista/... Perhaps this needs to be updated too? On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:04 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 06/19/2016 08:16 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > Am 13.06.2016 um 17:33 schrieb Richard Heck: > > > >> > >>

Re: Help KDE-Edu: WYSIWYG editor for math expressions

2014-02-17 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
I wonder if it would be easier to add C++ binding to something like MathQuill? That would seem a very Qt5 thing to do. http://mathquill.com/demo.html I was even wondering if it would make sense plan to eventually replace the lyx rich text editor with an html5/javascript-ish* one. For example

Re: Help KDE-Edu: WYSIWYG editor for math expressions

2014-02-17 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
I wonder if it would be easier to add C++ binding to something like MathQuill? That would seem a very Qt5 thing to do. http://mathquill.com/demo.html I was even wondering if it would make sense plan to eventually replace the lyx rich text editor with an html5/javascript-ish* one. For example

Re: Lemma etc. missing from entcs.layout.

2013-06-05 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: On 11/27/2011 06:43 AM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: I have proposed a patch to allow use of lemmas etc. in the ENTCS format. I think someone who was familiar with the LyX layout format could do a better job

Re: Lemma etc. missing from entcs.layout.

2013-06-05 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 11/27/2011 06:43 AM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > > I have proposed a patch to allow use of lemmas etc. in the ENTCS > > format. I think someone who was familiar with the LyX layout format >

Re: Reg. Online Latex WYSIWYG editor

2013-05-22 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Saravanan V lotusmen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have seen LYX which is wonderful tool. I have few questions here that is, Is there LYX for online WYSIWYG content editing? or can we make LYX for online WYSIWYG editor? I think you mean WYSIWYMean, as LyX

Re: Reg. Online Latex WYSIWYG editor

2013-05-22 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Saravanan V wrote: > Hi, > > I have seen LYX which is wonderful tool. I have few questions here that is, > Is there LYX for online WYSIWYG content editing? > or > can we make LYX for online WYSIWYG editor? > I think you mean WYSIWYMean, as

Re: Making LYX accessible to the blind

2013-04-14 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: Actually, I believe that a dedicated LaTeX editor (TeXworks, TeXmaker, ...) is better suited for generating of LaTeX documents for blind people. Offtopic, but I wonder - what blind people do with

Re: Making LYX accessible to the blind

2013-04-14 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: > > Actually, I believe that a dedicated LaTeX editor (TeXworks, TeXmaker, > ...) > > is better suited for generating of LaTeX documents for blind people. > > Offtopic, but I wonder - what blind people do

Howto avoid cygwin/python import problems

2013-04-04 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
Just in case someone hits the same problem as me: I had lots of problems importing files in Windows, getting errors like LyX: Document formmat failure C: ... Buffer_convertLyXFormat.Xd9288 is not a readable Lyx document It took me a while to figure out that if you are calling a native LyX exe

Howto avoid cygwin/python import problems

2013-04-04 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
Just in case someone hits the same problem as me: I had lots of problems importing files in Windows, getting errors like LyX: Document formmat failure C: ... Buffer_convertLyXFormat.Xd9288 is not a readable Lyx document It took me a while to figure out that if you are calling a native LyX exe

Re: pdflatex output /dev/null but in unix some stdout is still shown on terminal

2013-01-24 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Scott Kostyshak skost...@lyx.org wrote: I'm confused by the following: pdflatex output is redirected to /dev/null but I still see some of the output. I don't think it's a stderr problem since the part I see is written to stdout. That's weird. I don't get any

Re: pdflatex output /dev/null but in unix some stdout is still shown on terminal

2013-01-24 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Scott Kostyshak skost...@lyx.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:29 AM, John McCabe-Dansted gma...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Scott Kostyshak skost...@lyx.org wrote: I'm confused by the following: pdflatex output is redirected to /dev

Re: pdflatex output > /dev/null but in unix some stdout is still shown on terminal

2013-01-24 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > I'm confused by the following: pdflatex output is redirected to > /dev/null but I still see some of the output. I don't think it's a > stderr problem since the part I see is written to stdout. That's weird. I don't get

Re: pdflatex output > /dev/null but in unix some stdout is still shown on terminal

2013-01-24 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:29 AM, John McCabe-Dansted <gma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: >>> I'm confus

LyX.org Down?

2012-08-02 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
I've been having trouble accessing the LyX website. At first I thought it was just the SVN server, but now I can't even get to www.lyx.org/. Anyone else having problems?

LyX.org Down?

2012-08-02 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
I've been having trouble accessing the LyX website. At first I thought it was just the SVN server, but now I can't even get to www.lyx.org/. Anyone else having problems?

Re: Upgrade Qt to 4.8?

2012-05-25 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgout...@lyx.org wrote: Le 25/05/2012 08:03, Liviu Andronic a écrit : You except the bug that makes it impossible to use the File/Open dialog? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/946956 WorksForMe(TM). My understanding is

Re: Upgrade Qt to 4.8?

2012-05-25 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 25/05/2012 08:03, Liviu Andronic a écrit : > You except the bug that makes it impossible to use the File/Open dialog? > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/946956 WorksForMe(TM). My

Re: why does import save?

2012-05-23 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: I agree with you generally here. The conversion, like for export, should be done in a temporary directory, if only because the importer could, in principle, create all kinds of garbage in the original directory. Then the

Re: why does import save?

2012-05-23 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > I agree with you generally here. The conversion, like for export, should be > done in a temporary directory, if only because the importer could, in > principle, create all kinds of garbage in the original directory. Then

Re: request to remove 2 template files

2012-04-19 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: So latex8 can go. Probably should just leave them in branch, I think. Just in case. In this case I want to remove them from branch too. Both template files are since years obsolete and only lead to confusions. (Like I was

Re: request to remove 2 template files

2012-04-19 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > So latex8 can go. > >>> Probably should just leave them in branch, I think. Just in case. > > In this case I want to remove them from branch too. Both template files are > since years obsolete and only lead to confusions. (Like

Re: Lemma etc. missing from entcs.layout.

2011-11-27 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
31, 2011 at 8:30 PM, John McCabe-Dansted gma...@gmail.com wrote: When I convert an article to entcs format I get the problem: 1) If I leave the Theorems module enabled. I get errors claiming e.g. “Command \proof already defined” 2) If I delete the Theorems module then LyX claims that lists

Re: Lemma etc. missing from entcs.layout.

2011-11-27 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
31, 2011 at 8:30 PM, John McCabe-Dansted <gma...@gmail.com> wrote: > When I convert an article to entcs format I get the problem: > 1) If I leave the Theorems module enabled. I get errors claiming e.g. > “Command \proof already defined” > 2) If I delete the Theorems module then LyX

Re: [svn2git] The authors file used - review

2011-10-07 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Lars Gullik Bjønnes lar...@gullik.org wrote: This below is the authors file I used to make the git commits look better. I am guessing that some of the names/addresses used are not quite as some of you would want. So I'd like some input so that I can get it

Re: [svn2git] The authors file used - review

2011-10-07 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > This below is the authors file I used to make the git commits look > better. I am guessing that some of the names/addresses used are not > quite as some of you would want. So I'd like some input so that I can > get

Re: LyX 2.0.1

2011-08-27 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn v...@lyx.org wrote: According to john I caused the crashes while fixing the scrolling. That's why I did not backport the fix. I'd propose the attached fix, which doesn't trigger any (either sporadic and endless) recursive repaint

Re: LyX 2.0.1

2011-08-27 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: > >>> According to john I caused the crashes while fixing the scrolling. That's >>> why I did not backport the fix. >>> >> I'd propose the attached fix, which doesn't trigger any (either sporadic >> and endless)

Re: recursive repaint - segfault

2011-08-21 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Tommaso Cucinotta tomm...@lyx.org wrote: from one of my tests for findadv that was failing:  [C-s-f] (pop-up advanced find)  \Axmath-display\[Return] and I get infinite: QWidget::repaint: recursive repaint, till segfault. Beginning of stack trace is below

Re: recursive repaint -> segfault

2011-08-21 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > from one of my tests for findadv that was failing: > >  [C-s-f] (pop-up advanced find) >  \Axmath-display\[Return] > > and I get infinite: "QWidget::repaint: recursive repaint", till segfault. > Beginning of stack trace

Re: copy generated pdf to document folder automatically. Possible?

2011-08-18 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:14 PM, John McCabe-Dansted gma...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Paul Johnson pauljoh...@gmail.com wrote: ... #!/bin/bash rsync -rv $1 $2 exec evince $1 exit 0 ... Here are the problems. 1. LyX is stuck while Evince is open. I mean, even

Re: copy generated pdf to document folder automatically. Possible?

2011-08-18 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:14 PM, John McCabe-Dansted <gma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Paul Johnson <pauljoh...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... >> #!/bin/bash >> rsync -rv "$1" "$2" >> exec evince $1 >> exit 0 > .

Re: copy generated pdf to document folder automatically. Possible?

2011-08-17 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:06 AM, Paul Johnson pauljoh...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to automatically copy pdf output from the LyX temp directory back to the current working directory whenever I view a document, rather

Re: copy generated pdf to document folder automatically. Possible?

2011-08-17 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Paul Johnson pauljoh...@gmail.com wrote: ... #!/bin/bash rsync -rv $1 $2 exec evince $1 exit 0 ... Here are the problems. 1. LyX is stuck while Evince is open. I mean, even if you edit, lyx will not allow another view or update view action.  LyX still

Re: copy generated pdf to document folder automatically. Possible?

2011-08-17 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:06 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: >> I'd like to automatically copy pdf output from the LyX temp directory >> back to the current working directory whenever I view a

Re: copy generated pdf to document folder automatically. Possible?

2011-08-17 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: ... > #!/bin/bash > rsync -rv "$1" "$2" > exec evince $1 > exit 0 ... > Here are the problems. > > 1. LyX is "stuck" while Evince is open. I mean, even if you edit, lyx > will not allow another view or update view action.  

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

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

Lemma etc. missing from entcs.layout.

2011-07-31 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
When I convert an article to entcs format I get the problem: 1) If I leave the Theorems module enabled. I get errors claiming e.g. “Command \proof already defined” 2) If I delete the Theorems module then LyX claims that lists the Lemma environment as Lemma (unknown). I attach the patch I am using

Lemma etc. missing from entcs.layout.

2011-07-31 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
When I convert an article to entcs format I get the problem: 1) If I leave the Theorems module enabled. I get errors claiming e.g. “Command \proof already defined” 2) If I delete the Theorems module then LyX claims that lists the Lemma environment as "Lemma (unknown)". I attach the patch I am

Re: #3205: Cannot create external file from within LyX.

2011-07-28 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
Looks handy to me. A couple of minor comments: 1) Why do you show a dialog informing the user that the file will be created from the template? This information could be moved to the previous dialog saving one click. 2) From my distant memories of MacOS 8, file extensions are not encouraged on

Re: #3205: Cannot create external file from within LyX.

2011-07-28 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
Looks handy to me. A couple of minor comments: 1) Why do you show a dialog informing the user that the file will be created from the template? This information could be moved to the previous dialog saving one click. 2) From my distant memories of MacOS 8, file extensions are not encouraged on

Re: LyX2 slow with complex documents?

2011-07-17 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:34 PM, John McCabe-Dansted gma...@gmail.com wrote: To reproduce:  1) Open a complex lyx file with many math insets, macros etc. (e.g. http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~john/drafts/Thesis_Background.lyx, or just create a new document and fill the screen with $x$ x, where $x

Re: LyX2 slow with complex documents?

2011-07-17 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
Is it more convenient if I include the patch that caused the regression in my email, if it is small, as below? It seems that this code should only be called if the math inset has actually been modified, but that it is being called constantly, even on cursor movement outside the math inset.

I've committed my first revision (r39333). Expect a plague of locusts ;)

2011-07-17 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
I have finally exercised my commit privileges by committing r39333. I spent an hours checking everything is OK, but this is my first commit ever to a shared VCS... so expect a rain of fire. Also, is this OK for branch? Should I commit there as well? If so, to do that I just check out branch,

Re: LyX2 slow with complex documents?

2011-07-17 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Enrico Forestieri for...@lyx.org wrote: On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 06:49:43PM +0800, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: It seems that this code should only be called if the math inset has actually been modified, but that it is being called constantly, even on cursor

Re: LyX2 slow with complex documents?

2011-07-17 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:34 PM, John McCabe-Dansted <gma...@gmail.com> wrote: > To reproduce: >  1) Open a complex lyx file with many math insets, macros etc. (e.g. > http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~john/drafts/Thesis_Background.lyx, or just > create a new document and fill the

Re: LyX2 slow with complex documents?

2011-07-17 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
Is it more convenient if I include the patch that caused the regression in my email, if it is small, as below? It seems that this code should only be called if the math inset has actually been modified, but that it is being called constantly, even on cursor movement outside the math inset.

I've committed my first revision (r39333). Expect a plague of locusts ;)

2011-07-17 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
I have finally exercised my commit privileges by committing r39333. I spent an hours checking everything is OK, but this is my first commit ever to a shared VCS... so expect a rain of fire. Also, is this OK for branch? Should I commit there as well? If so, to do that I just check out branch,

Re: LyX2 slow with complex documents?

2011-07-17 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Enrico Forestieri <for...@lyx.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 06:49:43PM +0800, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > >> It seems that this code should only be called if the math inset has >> actually been modified, but that it is being

Re: New Benchmark Tool for LyX Results.

2011-07-14 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Tommaso Cucinotta tomm...@lyx.org wrote: Il 13/07/2011 20:32, John McCabe-Dansted ha scritto: one trivial questions (sorry to ask): 1) are you sure power management was disabled on your machine while running these benchmarks ? Powermanagement was probably

Re: New Benchmark Tool for LyX Results.

2011-07-14 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:37 PM, John McCabe-Dansted gma...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway: I have reproduced the increase in memory use with =rel as well. It appears to be caused by the additions to lib/layouttranslations. Does LyX make an in memory copy of the translations for every inset? LyX

Re: New Benchmark Tool for LyX & Results.

2011-07-14 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Tommaso Cucinotta <tomm...@lyx.org> wrote: > Il 13/07/2011 20:32, John McCabe-Dansted ha scritto: > one trivial questions (sorry to ask): > 1) are you sure power management was disabled on your machine while running > these benchmarks

Re: New Benchmark Tool for LyX & Results.

2011-07-14 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:37 PM, John McCabe-Dansted <gma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Anyway: I have reproduced the increase in memory use with =rel as > well. It appears to be caused by the additions to > lib/layouttranslations. Does LyX make an in memory copy of the > translatio

New Benchmark Tool for LyX Results.

2011-07-13 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
I have begun developing benchmark utilities for LyX. These can be found by doing git clone g...@github.com:gmatht/Jankey.git cd Jankey/Benchmarks/ The Benchmark basically involves spamming the following keycodes at LyX \Ac \D1 \Ac \D9 \D9 \Ao \D1\Av\D10 \Ai n n nnn \[Right] asdf \r \r

New Benchmark Tool for LyX & Results.

2011-07-13 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
I have begun developing benchmark utilities for LyX. These can be found by doing git clone g...@github.com:gmatht/Jankey.git cd Jankey/Benchmarks/ The Benchmark basically involves spamming the following keycodes at LyX \Ac \D1 \Ac \D9 \D9 \Ao \D1\Av\D10 \Ai n n nnn \[Right] asdf \r \r

Re: GIT as vcs for lyx documents

2011-07-11 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:     (i) cd .. takes me to /home/rgheck/, as expected I understand that the bash builtin cd command reinterpreting .. to mean slice off part of the path.     (ii) ls .. gives me the files in /home/rgheck/files/, as not

Re: GIT as vcs for lyx documents

2011-07-11 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Richard Heck wrote: >     (i) "cd .." takes me to /home/rgheck/, as expected I understand that the bash builtin cd command reinterpreting ".." to mean slice off part of the path. >     (ii) "ls .." gives me the files in /home/rgheck/files/,

Re: LyX daily build and 2.0.x ppa

2011-07-08 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:21 AM, John McCabe-Dansted gma...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote: the image ubuntu makes for lyx is bad. they are pushing not well tested versions of qt/lyx into repo, but they do not update bugfixing releases so user

Re: LyX daily build and 2.0.x ppa

2011-07-08 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:21 AM, John McCabe-Dansted <gma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Pavel Sanda <sa...@lyx.org> wrote: >> the image ubuntu makes for lyx is bad. they are pushing not well tested >> versions of qt/lyx into repo, but they do no

Re: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS suddenly broke --without-included-boost?

2011-07-04 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgout...@lyx.org wrote: Le 03/07/2011 15:17, John McCabe-Dansted a écrit : terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'   what():  std::bad_alloc The problem is that external boost is in general compiled without stdlib

Re: LyX daily build and 2.0.x ppa

2011-07-04 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the trust you put in me, but I do not nearly know enough about building software, configuration and ubuntu to feel comfortable with this role. I don't think that Ubuntu would let you fill the role without a

Re: LyX daily build and 2.0.x ppa

2011-07-04 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote: I would rather inform the user about the ppa and how they can add it to Hmm, if we wanted to be really fancy we could add an upgrade to lyx-2.0.latest in the about dialog, and replace the You have crashed, please report a

Re: LyX daily build and 2.0.x ppa

2011-07-04 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote: the image ubuntu makes for lyx is bad. they are pushing not well tested versions of qt/lyx into repo, but they do not update bugfixing releases so user gets unstable lyx at the end. it happened with their last LTS 10.04 (not

Re: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS suddenly broke --without-included-boost?

2011-07-04 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org> wrote: > Le 03/07/2011 15:17, John McCabe-Dansted a écrit : >> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' >>   what():  std::bad_alloc > > The problem is that external b

Re: LyX daily build and 2.0.x ppa

2011-07-04 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > Thanks for the trust you put in me, but I do not nearly know enough about > building software, configuration and ubuntu to feel comfortable with this > role. I don't think that Ubuntu would let you fill the role without a

Re: LyX daily build and 2.0.x ppa

2011-07-04 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > I would rather inform the user about the ppa and how they can add it to Hmm, if we wanted to be really fancy we could add an "upgrade to lyx-2.0.latest" in the about dialog, and replace the "You have crashed, please

Re: LyX daily build and 2.0.x ppa

2011-07-04 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > the image ubuntu makes for lyx is bad. they are pushing not well tested > versions of qt/lyx into repo, but they do not update bugfixing releases > so user gets unstable lyx at the end. it happened with their last LTS 10.04 >

Re: LyX daily build and 2.0.x ppa

2011-07-03 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote: yes this was the idea. otherwise i dont believe we can't do much about the whole thing except extremistic solutions like doing ppas and ask ubuntu

Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS suddenly broke --without-included-boost?

2011-07-03 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
Whenever I try to run a recent version of trunk I get the error below. This does not seem to be a regession in LyX but rather a regression in the Ubuntu boost... except that they don't seem to have changed that recently. I don't really know what is going on. But if anyone else comes across this

Re: LyX daily build and 2.0.x ppa

2011-07-03 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote: John McCabe-Dansted wrote: We could detect the Ubuntu build environment and break. I don't recall hehehe. it reminds me time when climm developer (that time micq) was not able to push critical fixes into the debian release

Re: Test export in autotests?

2011-07-03 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Tommaso Cucinotta tomm...@lyx.org wrote: Il 03/07/2011 07:37, John McCabe-Dansted ha scritto: Hi, I was thinking that we could test that export is still working in autotests. I was thinking something like the test below. We could add other formats, though e.g

Re: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS suddenly broke --without-included-boost?

2011-07-03 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Peter Kümmel syntheti...@gmx.net wrote: On 03.07.2011 15:17, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: Whenever I try to run a recent version of trunk I get the error below. This does not seem to be a regession in LyX but rather a regression in the Ubuntu boost... except

Re: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS suddenly broke --without-included-boost?

2011-07-03 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:18 AM, John McCabe-Dansted gma...@gmail.com wrote: On 03.07.2011 15:17, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: Whenever I try to run a recent version of trunk I get the error below. This does not seem to be a regession in LyX but rather a regression in the Ubuntu boost... except

Re: LyX daily build and 2.0.x ppa

2011-07-03 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: >> yes this was the idea. otherwise i dont believe we can't do much about the >> whole thing except extremistic "solutions" like doing ppas and ask

Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS suddenly broke --without-included-boost?

2011-07-03 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
Whenever I try to run a recent version of trunk I get the error below. This does not seem to be a regession in LyX but rather a regression in the Ubuntu boost... except that they don't seem to have changed that recently. I don't really know what is going on. But if anyone else comes across this

Re: LyX daily build and 2.0.x ppa

2011-07-03 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Pavel Sanda <sa...@lyx.org> wrote: > John McCabe-Dansted wrote: >> We could detect the Ubuntu build environment and break. I don't recall > > hehehe. it reminds me time when climm developer (that time micq) > was not able to push critic

Re: Test export in autotests?

2011-07-03 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Tommaso Cucinotta <tomm...@lyx.org> wrote: > Il 03/07/2011 07:37, John McCabe-Dansted ha scritto: >> >> Hi, I was thinking that we could test that export is still working in >> autotests. I was thinking something like the test below. We

Re: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS suddenly broke --without-included-boost?

2011-07-03 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Peter Kümmel <syntheti...@gmx.net> wrote: > On 03.07.2011 15:17, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: >> >> Whenever I try to run a recent version of trunk I get the error below. >> This does not seem to be a regession in LyX but rather a regres

Re: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS suddenly broke --without-included-boost?

2011-07-03 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:18 AM, John McCabe-Dansted <gma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 03.07.2011 15:17, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: >>> Whenever I try to run a recent version of trunk I get the error below. >>> This does not seem to be a regession in LyX but rather

Test export in autotests?

2011-07-02 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
Hi, I was thinking that we could test that export is still working in autotests. I was thinking something like the test below. We could add other formats, though e.g. adding ps or pdf would cause BAD to be emitted when we do not have the installed cls files, which may not be what we want (we could

Test export in autotests?

2011-07-02 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
Hi, I was thinking that we could test that export is still working in autotests. I was thinking something like the test below. We could add other formats, though e.g. adding ps or pdf would cause "BAD" to be emitted when we do not have the installed cls files, which may not be what we want (we

Should keytest follow trunk-devel at git://gitorious.org/lyx/lyx.git?

2011-07-01 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
Hi, I was trying to find out if keytest should now be following trunk-devel instead of svn. The only documentation I found was: http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/Git Which still suggests that I should use git-svn. Also it appears that git://gitorious.org/lyx/lyx.git has not been updated in a month,

Re: LyX daily build and 2.0.x ppa

2011-07-01 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote: Rainer M Krug wrote: I have the feeling we are getting somewhere with the creation of the ppa for LyX. side note. firstly, do you know how the official binaries are prepared for ubuntu. are they blindly taken from debian or

Re: LyX daily build and 2.0.x ppa

2011-07-01 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 2:46 AM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote: John McCabe-Dansted wrote: I could try suggesting on ubuntu-devel-discuss that lyx would be a good candidate for more frequent releases. Something like: i think the real issue is that there is really nobody who cares about lyx

Should keytest follow trunk-devel at git://gitorious.org/lyx/lyx.git?

2011-07-01 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
Hi, I was trying to find out if keytest should now be following trunk-devel instead of svn. The only documentation I found was: http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/Git Which still suggests that I should use git-svn. Also it appears that git://gitorious.org/lyx/lyx.git has not been updated in a month,

Re: LyX daily build and 2.0.x ppa

2011-07-01 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Rainer M Krug wrote: >> I have the feeling we are getting somewhere with the creation of the ppa for >> LyX. > > side note. > > firstly, do you know how the official binaries are prepared for ubuntu. > are they blindly taken

Re: LyX daily build and 2.0.x ppa

2011-07-01 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 2:46 AM, Pavel Sanda <sa...@lyx.org> wrote: > John McCabe-Dansted wrote: >> I could try suggesting on ubuntu-devel-discuss that lyx would be a >> good candidate for more frequent releases. Something like: > > i think the real issue is that there

Re: FancyLineEdit.h not found (Lucid

2011-06-24 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Stephan Witt st.w...@gmx.net wrote: I've build LyX-2.0.1 successfully with Qt-4.6.3 on macosx from svn branch checkout. Did you apply some backport patch locally? No, but I switched from trunk; svnversion reported a incomplete switch. I ran svn switch again,

Re: LyX daily build and 2.0.x ppa

2011-06-24 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote: there should always be a installation candidate lyx in the stable ppa, which effectively is always the newest version and installs as lyx without any version suffix. Would that then clash with the official Ubuntu(tm) LyX

Re: LyX daily build and 2.0.x ppa

2011-06-24 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: In my view release is extraneous here. We could have instead: lyx-1.6 (for latest stable 1.6.x release; probably forever 1.6.10) lyx (for latest stable release, currently 2.0.0 and soon 2.0.1, while in the future it

Re: FancyLineEdit.h not found (Lucid

2011-06-24 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Stephan Witt wrote: > I've build LyX-2.0.1 successfully with Qt-4.6.3 on macosx from svn branch > checkout. > Did you apply some backport patch locally? No, but I switched from trunk; svnversion reported a incomplete switch. I ran svn switch

Re: LyX daily build and 2.0.x ppa

2011-06-24 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > there should always be a installation candidate "lyx" in the stable ppa, > which effectively is always the newest version and installs as lyx without > any version suffix. Would that then clash with the official

Re: LyX daily build and 2.0.x ppa

2011-06-24 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > In my view "release" is extraneous here. We could have instead: > lyx-1.6 (for latest stable 1.6.x release; probably forever 1.6.10) > lyx (for latest stable release, currently 2.0.0 and soon 2.0.1, while > in the

Re: FancyLineEdit.h not found (Lucid

2011-06-23 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
Sorry, for some reason this got sent as I was typing. Anyway this is with qt4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.2, and the latest branch 2.0.x (r39194). -- John C. McCabe-Dansted

Re: FancyLineEdit.h not found (Lucid

2011-06-23 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:20 PM, John McCabe-Dansted gma...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, for some reason this got sent as I was typing. Anyway this is with qt4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.2, and the latest branch 2.0.x (r39194). A work around for this compile failure is to copy FancyLineEdit.h

Re: FancyLineEdit.h not found (Lucid

2011-06-23 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:36 PM, John McCabe-Dansted gma...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:20 PM, John McCabe-Dansted gma...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, for some reason this got sent as I was typing. Anyway this is with qt4:4.6.2-0ubuntu5.2, and the latest branch 2.0.x (r39194

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