Re: LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

, Pavel Sanda wrote: Rob Oakes wrote: I'll look into it and see if I can get them included for current users of Ubuntu. Based on what I've read, I'm not sure it's very likely, though :( But it never hurts to ask. you can argue by the fact that this is no update, but rather bugfix of very

LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

Dear LyX Users and Developers, I wanted to provide a bit of an update to my adventures with Ubuntu packaging (insofar as they are related to LyX). I've spoken with the Ubuntu developers, and they have granted our request to include 1.6.7 in the next version of Ubuntu (Maverick Meerkat,

Re: LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

Sanda wrote: > Rob Oakes wrote: >> Dear LyX Users and Developers, > > firstly, thanks to care about ubuntu repos. the most frequent bug report > is the combination of lyx 1.6.5 & qt-4.6 in lynx; dont know if buntu's > policies permit this but it would be great if

Re: LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Rob Oakes wrote: >> I'll look into it and see if I can get them included for current users of >> Ubuntu. Based on what I've read, I'm not sure it's very likely, though :( >> But it never hurts to ask. > > you can argue by the fact that this is n

Re: Support for BibLaTeX / Debian packages for Ubuntu

, are there any thoughts about biblatex support? On Aug 15, 2010, at 8:23 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: Dear LyX Developers, While working on another issue, I was taking a look at BibLaTeX over the weekend. It looks like a very nice package for the creation of bibliographies. On the Wiki it says

Re: Support for BibLaTeX / Debian packages for Ubuntu

, are there any thoughts about biblatex support? On Aug 15, 2010, at 8:23 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: > Dear LyX Developers, > > While working on another issue, I was taking a look at BibLaTeX over the > weekend. It looks like a very nice package for the creation of > bibliographie

Support for BibLaTeX / Debian packages for Ubuntu

Dear LyX Developers, While working on another issue, I was taking a look at BibLaTeX over the weekend. It looks like a very nice package for the creation of bibliographies. On the Wiki it says that LyX does not support not support BibLaTeX natively, yet. I was wondering if there are plans

Support for BibLaTeX / Debian packages for Ubuntu

Dear LyX Developers, While working on another issue, I was taking a look at BibLaTeX over the weekend. It looks like a very nice package for the creation of bibliographies. On the Wiki it says that LyX does not support not support BibLaTeX natively, "yet." I was wondering if there are plans

Re: LyX in ubuntu (help!)

I would be happy to accept responsibility for Ubuntu packaging. It's the distro I use most often, and I maintain packages Sent from Rob's Palm On Aug 13, 2010, at 6:01 AM, Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES lasgout...@lyx.org wrote: Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org writes: I post this message in the

Re: LyX in ubuntu (help!)

Hi Jean-Marc, (Let's try this again, this time not from a hand-held.) I would be happy to accept responsibility for the Ubuntu packaging. It's the distribution that i use most frequently, and I help to package another program, which has taught me something about .deb files. Is there an

Re: LyX in ubuntu (help!)

I would be happy to accept responsibility for Ubuntu packaging. It's the distro I use most often, and I maintain packages Sent from Rob's Palm On Aug 13, 2010, at 6:01 AM, Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES wrote: Jürgen Spitzmüller writes: I post this message in

Re: LyX in ubuntu (help!)

Hi Jean-Marc, (Let's try this again, this time not from a hand-held.) I would be happy to accept responsibility for the Ubuntu packaging. It's the distribution that i use most frequently, and I help to package another program, which has taught me something about .deb files. Is there an

Re: changeset/35060 - color regressions

Dear Jean-Marc and Uwe, I think that any time you start messing with the user-interface, it's going to be controversial. Even though the UI only accounts for a very small component of the code, it's what people interact with most; and it's easy to have strong opinions. On the matter of colors,

Re: changeset/35060 - color regressions

PS, As long as people are proposing UI overhauls, it might be a good time to think about simplifying LyX's many tool-bars? In general, I think that they can be a bit overwhelming, and in many instances, seem to duplicate options available from the menus. Though I don't have any specific

Re: changeset/35060 - color regressions

Hi Uwe, What? There is absolutely no need to change a well-discussed thing that has been proven useful for the users. And no, i don't think we should change the color scheme for every new release like e.g. Gnome did in the past. There is simply no advantage for the user. If the user

Re: changeset/35060 - color regressions

Dear Jean-Marc and Uwe, I think that any time you start messing with the user-interface, it's going to be controversial. Even though the UI only accounts for a very small component of the code, it's what people interact with most; and it's easy to have strong opinions. On the matter of colors,

Re: changeset/35060 - color regressions

PS, As long as people are proposing UI overhauls, it might be a good time to think about simplifying LyX's many tool-bars? In general, I think that they can be a bit overwhelming, and in many instances, seem to duplicate options available from the menus. Though I don't have any specific

Re: changeset/35060 - color regressions

Hi Uwe, > What? There is absolutely no need to change a well-discussed thing that has > been proven useful for > the users. And no, i don't think we should change the color scheme for every > new release like e.g. > Gnome did in the past. There is simply no advantage for the user. If the

Re: No Mouse scrolling in LyX 2.0 - Mac?

I will try to test later today. Cheers, Rob Sent from Rob's Palm On Jun 30, 2010, at 6:45 AM, James Sutherland jcsutherland.u...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 30, 2010, at 4:56 AM, Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES lasgout...@lyx.org wrote: James C. Sutherland james.sutherl...@utah.edu writes: When

Re: No Mouse scrolling in LyX 2.0 - Mac?

I just applied the patch and can confirm that two finger scrolling works famously. My apologies for the keybinding. Instead of option, I meant to say command. However, the behavior is still different than other apple programs. In the most recent SVN of LyX, command + right arrow advances a

Re: No Mouse scrolling in LyX 2.0 - Mac?

I will try to test later today. Cheers, Rob Sent from Rob's Palm On Jun 30, 2010, at 6:45 AM, James Sutherland wrote: On Jun 30, 2010, at 4:56 AM, Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES wrote: "James C. Sutherland" writes:

Re: No Mouse scrolling in LyX 2.0 - Mac?

I just applied the patch and can confirm that two finger scrolling works famously. My apologies for the keybinding. Instead of option, I meant to say "command". However, the behavior is still different than other apple programs. In the most recent SVN of LyX, command + right arrow advances

Re: Using Qt Constructs in Core

Hi Richard and Abdul, Thanks for the pointers. Sorry for not providing more context about what I am trying to accomplish. The addition of a vector into the TocItem class was to give me a place to store other insets that might also be present in the paragraph. I think he really does mean:

Re: Using Qt Constructs in Core

Hi Richard and Abdul, Thanks for the pointers. Sorry for not providing more context about what I am trying to accomplish. The addition of a vector into the TocItem class was to give me a place to store other insets that might also be present in the paragraph. << I think he really does mean:

Using Qt Constructs in Core

Dear LyX-Developers, I have spent most of the morning trying to resolve a compiler warning involving std::vector. After soliciting advice from a couple of different people, it seemed that the easiest solution would be to use QVector instead of the standard library implementation. However, when

Re: Using Qt Constructs in Core

I think it remains LyX policy not to use Qt in the core. This is not necessarily something that everyone agrees with, but it is still the policy. I think I remember reading something about this, but wasn't sure if it was still the case. When I try to include the file: #include QVector It

Re: Using Qt Constructs in Core

Hi Abdel, Thanks for the clarification. What is the problem exactly? Maybe we can help... I appreciate the offer. I've been running into a problem with the way that I'm instantiating a vector in TocItem. The code will compile when configured with cmake, but refuses to compile when

Re: No Mouse scrolling in LyX 2.0 - Mac?

I can confirm that mouse scrolling (or two finger scrolling) does not work within the work area on Mac OS X. (It does, however, work within the Item Views and widgets provided by Qt -- QTreeView, QAbstractItemView, etc. Just not very well.) There also appears to be a key binding issue for

Using Qt Constructs in Core

Dear LyX-Developers, I have spent most of the morning trying to resolve a compiler warning involving std::vector. After soliciting advice from a couple of different people, it seemed that the easiest solution would be to use QVector instead of the standard library implementation. However, when

Re: Using Qt Constructs in Core

<< I think it remains LyX policy not to use Qt in the core. This is not necessarily something that everyone agrees with, but it is still the policy. >> I think I remember reading something about this, but wasn't sure if it was still the case. When I try to include the file: #include It

Re: Using Qt Constructs in Core

Hi Abdel, Thanks for the clarification. << What is the problem exactly? Maybe we can help... >> I appreciate the offer. I've been running into a problem with the way that I'm instantiating a vector in TocItem. The code will compile when configured with cmake, but refuses to compile when

Re: No Mouse scrolling in LyX 2.0 - Mac?

I can confirm that mouse scrolling (or two finger scrolling) does not work within the work area on Mac OS X. (It does, however, work within the Item Views and widgets provided by Qt -- QTreeView, QAbstractItemView, etc. Just not very well.) There also appears to be a key binding issue for

RE: cmake, mingw, Windows and _snprint

Dear LyX-Developers, Thank you to everyone who made suggestions regarding my problem with os_win32.cpp. After trying a variety of things, I finally gave up and chose to go the path of least resistance. I downloaded the C++ version of Visual Studio 2010 Express and used the command line

RE: cmake, mingw, Windows and _snprint

Dear LyX-Developers, Thank you to everyone who made suggestions regarding my problem with os_win32.cpp. After trying a variety of things, I finally gave up and chose to go the path of least resistance. I downloaded the C++ version of Visual Studio 2010 Express and used the command line

cmake, mingw, Windows and _snprint

Dear LyX Developers, I've been trying to build the most recent SVN version of LyX using mingw and cmake on Windows (via Qt Creator). However, I've run into a snag and cannot get os_win32.cpp to compile. After configuring (which proceeds without errors), the compiler tells me: '_snprint' was

cmake, mingw, Windows and _snprint

Dear LyX Developers, I've been trying to build the most recent SVN version of LyX using mingw and cmake on Windows (via Qt Creator). However, I've run into a snag and cannot get os_win32.cpp to compile. After configuring (which proceeds without errors), the compiler tells me: '_snprint' was

Error in Ui Code

Dear LyX Developers, I just created a new Ui file for a widget that I am working on. However, when I try to compile, I am getting a strange error (using CMake, all platforms). If there is any text within the body of the Ui (i.e. text on a button or within a label), the compiler throws an

Re: Error in Ui Code

, at 8:23 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: Rob Oakes wrote: Dear LyX Developers, I just created a new Ui file for a widget that I am working on. However, when I try to compile, I am getting a strange error (using CMake, all platforms). If there is any text within the body of the Ui (i.e. text

Error in Ui Code

Dear LyX Developers, I just created a new Ui file for a widget that I am working on. However, when I try to compile, I am getting a strange error (using CMake, all platforms). If there is any text within the body of the Ui (i.e. text on a button or within a label), the compiler throws an

Re: Error in Ui Code

Rob The code On Jun 17, 2010, at 8:23 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Rob Oakes wrote: >> Dear LyX Developers, >> >> I just created a new Ui file for a widget that I am working on. However, >> when I try to compile, I am getting a strange error (using CMake, all >>

Re: Navigate to last paragraph of section

Dear Vincent, Guenter and Richard, Thank you for the recommendations and feedback. Following your suggestions, I made several changes that have resolved a few of the problems (specifically, the LFUN no longer crashes LyX every time it gets clicked on). I still make use of a for loop to find

Re: Navigate to last paragraph of section

Dear Vincent, Guenter and Richard, Thank you for the recommendations and feedback. Following your suggestions, I made several changes that have resolved a few of the problems (specifically, the LFUN no longer crashes LyX every time it gets clicked on). I still make use of a for loop to find

Navigate to last paragraph of section

Dear LyX Developers, For the past week or so, I've been trying to put together methods for the expanded outline view/corkboard that will allow me to insert new headers. While I have a general roadmap, I've run into problems at one of the milestones. Specifically, I'd like to create an LFUN

Navigate to last paragraph of section

Dear LyX Developers, For the past week or so, I've been trying to put together methods for the expanded outline view/corkboard that will allow me to insert new headers. While I have a general roadmap, I've run into problems at one of the milestones. Specifically, I'd like to create an LFUN

Re: GUI behavior in table editing

I'm also having problems with this feature in LyX 2.0. I've found it to be tremendously inconsistent, even amongst different tables in my document. In the case of one table, whenever I click in a second column of the table, it causes the entire tabular to fly off screen and makes editing text

Re: GUI behavior in table editing

I'm also having problems with this feature in LyX 2.0. I've found it to be tremendously inconsistent, even amongst different tables in my document. In the case of one table, whenever I click in a second column of the table, it causes the entire tabular to fly off screen and makes editing text

Re: Helping out

I've been using QPlainTextEdit as a test widget for the outliner/corkboard extensions, and I've been very happy with its performance. Even when running in my laptop within a virtual machine, performance is near instantaneous. On Jun 7, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Fri, Jun 04,

Re: Helping out

I've been using QPlainTextEdit as a test widget for the outliner/corkboard extensions, and I've been very happy with its performance. Even when running in my laptop within a virtual machine, performance is near instantaneous. On Jun 7, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Fri, Jun 04,

Creating a Heading/Note Insert with Text

Dear LyX-Developers, After spending some time this morning looking at various LFUNs that are used to insert different types of insets (e.g., LFUN_NOTE_INSERT, etc.), I had a question about what the best way to programmatically create an inset with text is. Here is what I would like to

Re: Creating a Heading/Note Insert with Text

Hi Richard, What if the user wants to enter math in the note or heading? Eventually, my plan is to use a workspace as part of the editing/viewing delegate, which would allow for the user to entire math, or any other type of LyX docstring. For the time being, I've been playing with a

Creating a Heading/Note Insert with Text

Dear LyX-Developers, After spending some time this morning looking at various LFUNs that are used to insert different types of insets (e.g., LFUN_NOTE_INSERT, etc.), I had a question about what the best way to programmatically create an inset with text is. Here is what I would like to

Re: Creating a Heading/Note Insert with Text

Hi Richard, > What if the user wants to enter math in the note or heading? Eventually, my plan is to use a workspace as part of the editing/viewing delegate, which would allow for the user to entire math, or any other type of LyX docstring. For the time being, I've been playing with a

Python Project: PDF Optimization

list.) And as per the GPL, any patches would be sent upstream to the maintainer of PDF-Shuffler. Anyone who might interested? Cheers, Rob Oakes

Python Project: PDF Optimization

rs mailing list.) And as per the GPL, any patches would be sent upstream to the maintainer of PDF-Shuffler. Anyone who might interested? Cheers, Rob Oakes

Configuration on Mac OS X - Doesn't recognize LaTeX

Dear LyX Developers, I just downloaded the latest LyX version via SVN onto Mac and compiled it using the Qt 4.7 beta (which seems to be much more stable, responsive, and better than Qt 4.6; at least on Snow Leopard). Everything compiled fine and I was able to launch LyX and look at several

Re: Configuration on Mac OS X - Doesn't recognize LaTeX

Uhm, nevermind. It looks like I had a problem with my build environment in Qt Creator. Starting from the command line fixed the problem. I probably should have checked that prior to writing. Cheers, Rob

Re: [Code Review] LyX-Outline - Two Column TocModel

Hi Peter, After some problems with bazaar (it's much to slow: bzr branch never ends) I've managed to get the code with bzr checkout --lightweight lp:lyx-outline But I'm not sure if this is the right code because it stops compiling That was probably a good idea. The original plan was

Re: [Code Review] LyX-Outline - Two Column TocModel

Hi Peter, > > After some problems with bazaar (it's much to slow: bzr branch never ends) > I've managed to get the code with >bzr checkout --lightweight lp:lyx-outline > But I'm not sure if this is the right code because it stops compiling That was probably a good idea. The original plan

Configuration on Mac OS X - Doesn't recognize LaTeX

Dear LyX Developers, I just downloaded the latest LyX version via SVN onto Mac and compiled it using the Qt 4.7 beta (which seems to be much more stable, responsive, and better than Qt 4.6; at least on Snow Leopard). Everything compiled fine and I was able to launch LyX and look at several

Re: Configuration on Mac OS X - Doesn't recognize LaTeX

Uhm, nevermind. It looks like I had a problem with my build environment in Qt Creator. Starting from the command line fixed the problem. I probably should have checked that prior to writing. Cheers, Rob

Re: [Code Review] LyX-Outline - Two Column TocModel

Hi Peter, Thanks for the recommendations! I'll take a close look at the patch. If you'd like to take things for a test drive, it might be better to use the version over on launchpad (https://launchpad.net/lyx-outline). It incorporates the model changes sent yesterday in addition to one of the

Re: [Code Review] LyX-Outline - Two Column TocModel

Hi Peter, Thanks for the recommendations! I'll take a close look at the patch. If you'd like to take things for a test drive, it might be better to use the version over on launchpad (https://launchpad.net/lyx-outline). It incorporates the model changes sent yesterday in addition to one of the

[Code Review] LyX-Outline - Two Column TocModel

with crashes, application freezes or file corruption. I understand that the code may be a bit crude (I am neither a software developer or proficient with C++, though getting better). And for that reason, I would appreciate any thoughts/recommendations that you might have. Cheers, Rob Oakes

[Code Review] LyX-Outline - Two Column TocModel

with crashes, application freezes or file corruption. I understand that the code may be a bit crude (I am neither a software developer or proficient with C++, though getting better). And for that reason, I would appreciate any thoughts/recommendations that you might have. Cheers, Rob Oakes

toc.push_back

Dear LyX Developers, Does anyone know what the toc.push_back method does? I've seen it referenced in several of the Inset::addToToc implementations (InsetNote.cpp, InsetText, ...). From context, it appears to register the TocItem with the TocModel, however, I can't for the life of me find where

toc.push_back

Dear LyX Developers, Does anyone know what the toc.push_back method does? I've seen it referenced in several of the Inset::addToToc implementations (InsetNote.cpp, InsetText, ...). >From context, it appears to register the TocItem with the TocModel, however, I can't for the life of me find

LyX SVN and Geometry Package

, but might avoid conflicts with document classes that also use geometry. Cheers, Rob Oakes

[patch] Re: LyX SVN and Geometry Package

Dear LyX Developers, Attached is a simple patch which adds the PAPER_DEFAULT to the list of options where the geometry package is *not* required. This resolves the geometry clashes I reported yesterday. Cheers, Rob === modified file 'src/BufferParams.cpp' --- src/BufferParams.cpp 2010-05-20

LyX SVN and Geometry Package

, but might avoid conflicts with document classes that also use geometry. Cheers, Rob Oakes

[patch] Re: LyX SVN and Geometry Package

Dear LyX Developers, Attached is a simple patch which adds the PAPER_DEFAULT to the list of options where the geometry package is *not* required. This resolves the geometry clashes I reported yesterday. Cheers, Rob === modified file 'src/BufferParams.cpp' --- src/BufferParams.cpp 2010-05-20

Summary Inset, addToToc and expanding existing models

Dear LyX Developers, In the past few weeks, I've made some progress on the improvements to the toc model and outline pane that I proposed last year. (Mostly because I've found another developer who has been willing to do the heavy lifting and Abdel has been kind enough to say what needed to be

Re: Python 3

In a lot of cases, code can be run under both Python 2 or Python 3. There are a few notable things that you should be aware of (this blog post http://peadrop.com/blog/2009/04/05/porting-your-code-to-python-3/ is a nice overview), but the list isn't huge. Earlier this year, I ported a number of

Summary Inset, addToToc and expanding existing models

Dear LyX Developers, In the past few weeks, I've made some progress on the improvements to the toc model and outline pane that I proposed last year. (Mostly because I've found another developer who has been willing to do the heavy lifting and Abdel has been kind enough to say what needed to be

Re: Python 3

In a lot of cases, code can be run under both Python 2 or Python 3. There are a few notable things that you should be aware of (this blog post http://peadrop.com/blog/2009/04/05/porting-your-code-to-python-3/ is a nice overview), but the list isn't huge. Earlier this year, I ported a number of

Repeating Errors

errors and the status.message() instances). I'd appreciate any guidance that you can give me in trying to fix the problem. Cheers, Rob Oakes

Repeating Errors

looked at individual errors and the status.message() instances). I'd appreciate any guidance that you can give me in trying to fix the problem. Cheers, Rob Oakes

Re: alpha2

Hi Pavel, If it hasn't been addressed already ( I saw an earlier email), the SVN version of LyX no longer compiles with cmake. I've had issues both on Mac and Linux. It seems to be choking on some of the XHTML code in Buffer.cpp. I haven't looked into it, but might a solution be to

Re: alpha2

Hi Pavel, If it hasn't been addressed already ( I saw an earlier email), the SVN version of LyX no longer compiles with cmake. I've had issues both on Mac and Linux. It seems to be choking on some of the XHTML code in Buffer.cpp. I haven't looked into it, but might a solution be to

Re: LyX 2.0: Mac widgets

Dear LyX Developers, I had a couple of thoughts that I wanted to share. First, I actually prefer docked widgets to floating. This us how Scrivener works and it offers a vastly superior experience to MS Word or Pages. A second point worth considering: it seems that docked widgets or

Re: LyX 2.0: Mac widgets

Dear LyX Developers, I had a couple of thoughts that I wanted to share. First, I actually prefer docked widgets to floating. This us how Scrivener works and it offers a vastly superior experience to MS Word or Pages. A second point worth considering: it seems that "docked widgets" or

RE: TocModel Read/Write to Buffer

Dear Abdel and Richard, These are excellent points. But to tell the truth I am thinking that maybe we are on the wrong track here... I mean, we'll never be able to have the full power of LyX work area within the TocModel, just think about small insets, labels, ERTs, etc. This is a very

RE: How do I use toggle-dialog?

Dear LyX Developers, Thank you to everyone who provided suggestions. I finally managed to get it to work. For my own notes (and the wonderful list archives), here is a summary what was needed to use toggle-dialog: 1.) Create a DockWidget container that is similar to GuiToc, GuiProgressView,

RE: Importing doc documents

with Google's Summer of Code is, but if there is any interest, I'd be happy to help with filing applications and such. I'm not sure that I'm qualified to be a mentor, but I could be a ruthlessly competent coordinator. Cheers, Rob Oakes

RE: TocModel Read/Write to Buffer

Dear Abdel and Richard, These are excellent points. >>> But to tell the truth I am thinking that maybe we are on the wrong >>> track here... I mean, we'll never be able to have the full power of >> LyX work area within the TocModel, just think about small insets, >> labels, ERTs, etc. >> >>

RE: How do I use toggle-dialog?

Dear LyX Developers, Thank you to everyone who provided suggestions. I finally managed to get it to work. For my own notes (and the wonderful list archives), here is a summary what was needed to use toggle-dialog: 1.) Create a DockWidget container that is similar to GuiToc, GuiProgressView,

RE: Importing doc documents

with Google's Summer of Code is, but if there is any interest, I'd be happy to help with filing applications and such. I'm not sure that I'm qualified to be a mentor, but I could be a ruthlessly competent coordinator. Cheers, Rob Oakes

How do I use toggle-dialog?

skipped or is it necessary to add a reference to another file/class that I have overlooked? About six months ago, when I first started working on LyX-Outline, I tried to do this same thing and struggled with it at that time as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Rob Oakes

Re: How do I use toggle-dialog?

Hi Vincent, However, did you add the following to GuiView::build() ? if (name == testmod) return createGuiTestMod(*this); Vincent No, I had not. Thank you for the recommendation. I have now added the following to GuiView::build: ... Dialog * createGuiTestMod(GuiView

How do I use toggle-dialog?

menu is activated, but nothing happens. I must be missing something. Is there a step that I skipped or is it necessary to add a reference to another file/class that I have overlooked? About six months ago, when I first started working on LyX-Outline, I tried to do this same thing and struggled with it at tha

Re: How do I use toggle-dialog?

Hi Vincent, > > However, did you add the following to GuiView::build() ? > > if (name == "testmod") > return createGuiTestMod(*this); > > Vincent No, I had not. Thank you for the recommendation. I have now added the following to GuiView::build: ... Dialog *

RE: [Patch] Improving the Citation GUI.

Regular expressions might be useful in the search dialog, but I would make it one of those power-user features (well documented and well hidden). I know that I personally don't use them enough to get much benefit. Every time I need regular expressions for something, I invariably spend an

RE: [Patch] Improving the Citation GUI.

Regular expressions might be useful in the search dialog, but I would make it one of those "power-user" features (well documented and well hidden). I know that I personally don't use them enough to get much benefit. Every time I need regular expressions for something, I invariably spend an

RE: OpenDocument export [was Re: too long]

Hi Ethan, The DocBook import/export actually seems to work pretty well. It is, unfortunately, a subset of the full docbook spec, however. I haven't hit the technical limitations, but I've seen a number of complaints on behalf of others. For the open source writing book I am writing, I've

RE: OpenDocument export [was Re: too long]

Hi Ethan, The DocBook import/export actually seems to work pretty well. It is, unfortunately, a subset of the full docbook spec, however. I haven't hit the technical limitations, but I've seen a number of complaints on behalf of others. For the open source writing book I am writing, I've

RE: Trans-Siberian Railroad pictures - question

If you're looking for good train images, you might want to look at Wikimedia Commons. The images are all released under open source or creative commons licenses. These are a few that I pulled off the featured section. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NSB_Di_4_Saltfjell.jpg (Old Electric

RE: Trans-Siberian Railroad pictures - question

Hi Pavel, Perhaps I misunderstand then. Many of the images I linked to are no longer copyrighted. You can use them in any way you want without restriction. The only requirement I'm aware of is that you credit the creator of the image. In this case, attribution is to avoid plagiarism rather

RE: Trans-Siberian Railroad pictures - question

Hi Steve, Sorry for not being clear, I was referring to publisher requirements, not author or estate requirements (as in most cases said author is dead). Unfortunately, in the case of photographs and art there is another group you have to deal with: the collection that owns the physical media.

RE: Trans-Siberian Railroad pictures - question

If you're looking for good train images, you might want to look at Wikimedia Commons. The images are all released under open source or creative commons licenses. These are a few that I pulled off the featured section. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NSB_Di_4_Saltfjell.jpg (Old Electric

RE: Trans-Siberian Railroad pictures - question

Hi Pavel, Perhaps I misunderstand then. Many of the images I linked to are no longer copyrighted. You can use them in any way you want without restriction. The only requirement I'm aware of is that you credit the creator of the image. In this case, attribution is to avoid plagiarism rather

RE: Trans-Siberian Railroad pictures - question

Hi Steve, Sorry for not being clear, I was referring to publisher requirements, not author or estate requirements (as in most cases said author is dead). Unfortunately, in the case of photographs and art there is another group you have to deal with: the collection that owns the physical media.

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