Re: The baby algorithm

2005-11-23 Thread Asger Alstrup
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Asger, You forgot the most important advice: do not pay too much attention to other people's advice, including this one :) Definately. At the hospital, we got a brochure For the grand parents. It basically said that the grand parents should back off in polite

Re: The baby algorithm

2005-11-23 Thread Asger Alstrup
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Asger, You forgot the most important advice: do not pay too much attention to other people's advice, including this one :) Definately. At the hospital, we got a brochure "For the grand parents". It basically said that the grand parents should back off in polite

Re: ICU - uneasy feeling

2005-10-13 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: Would be nice if some of you could have a look at this lib as well, and see what you think of it. I know it is _The_ Unicode lib to use, but still... I agree that ICU is bloated, complicated and antiqued. I'm not sure there is anything better

Re: ICU - uneasy feeling

2005-10-13 Thread Asger Alstrup
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | Sure. But that's not information needed by the CORE, is it? The core does | act on (strings of) single codepoints. All paragraph breaking etc, acts on | single code points. How can it? When

Re: ICU - uneasy feeling

2005-10-13 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: Would be nice if some of you could have a look at this lib as well, and see what you think of it. I know it is _The_ Unicode lib to use, but still... I agree that ICU is bloated, complicated and antiqued. I'm not sure there is anything better

Re: ICU - uneasy feeling

2005-10-13 Thread Asger Alstrup
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | Sure. But that's not information needed by the CORE, is it? The core does | act on (strings of) single codepoints. All paragraph breaking etc, acts on | single code points. How can it? When

Re: Compile .py files to .exe under windows.

2005-09-26 Thread Asger Alstrup
Bo Peng wrote: This is not a bad idea since we only need a small proportion of the standard python distribution. If we can add a Python interpreter and convert.exe to lyx/win, we then only need to install tetex separately. This is reasonable since lyx is considered as a wrapper/GUI for latex.

Re: Compile .py files to .exe under windows.

2005-09-26 Thread Asger Alstrup
Bo Peng wrote: This is not a bad idea since we only need a small proportion of the standard python distribution. If we can add a Python interpreter and convert.exe to lyx/win, we then only need to install tetex separately. This is reasonable since lyx is considered as a wrapper/GUI for latex.

Re: LyX/Mac Spotlight importer

2005-08-30 Thread Asger Alstrup
Bennett Helm wrote: I have written a basic Spotlight importer for LyX/Mac. One simple thing to try to improve it is to export the LyX document as ASCII, and then index that. Regards, Asger

Re: LyX/Mac Spotlight importer

2005-08-30 Thread Asger Alstrup
Bennett Helm wrote: I have written a basic Spotlight importer for LyX/Mac. One simple thing to try to improve it is to export the LyX document as ASCII, and then index that. Regards, Asger

Re: Windows help! (Asger, Rob?)

2005-08-09 Thread Asger Alstrup
Luis Rivera wrote: Asger Alstrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It should be fine to just link against SHFolder first. However, I think that the users should be able to get this working by installing IE5 or later on their Windows 95 or 98 system. I tried what you said, and it does not work. Same

Re: Windows help! (Asger, Rob?)

2005-08-09 Thread Asger Alstrup
Luis Rivera wrote: Asger Alstrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: It should be fine to just link against SHFolder first. However, I think that the users should be able to get this working by installing IE5 or later on their Windows 95 or 98 system. I tried what you said, and it does no

Re: Windows help! (Asger, Rob?)

2005-08-08 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: LyX/Win won't start on Win98 and earlier because SHGetFolderPath isn't found in shell32.dll. Instead, these early versions of Windows (back to Win95) provide the function in SHFolder.dll. See

Re: Windows help! (Asger, Rob?)

2005-08-08 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: LyX/Win won't start on Win98 and earlier because SHGetFolderPath isn't found in shell32.dll. Instead, these early versions of Windows (back to Win95) provide the function in SHFolder.dll. See

Re: Gutting LyX

2005-07-04 Thread Asger Alstrup
David Wilson wrote: Hello all, Forgive me if this isn't entirely within the purview of this list. I was hoping to solicit your comments, and ask a couple of questions. 1) Do you think this is feasable? It is possible, but not easy. It will take a long time if you want to integrate this in

Re: Gutting LyX

2005-07-04 Thread Asger Alstrup
David Wilson wrote: Hello all, Forgive me if this isn't entirely within the purview of this list. I was hoping to solicit your comments, and ask a couple of questions. 1) Do you think this is feasable? It is possible, but not easy. It will take a long time if you want to integrate this in

Re: tex2lyx.exe not working

2005-06-22 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: I thought that in Windows that putting the prime directive in the path was sufficient since dos searches all the sub-directories unlike *nix? Really? Weird. No, it does not recurse into sub-directories. Regards, Asger

Re: tex2lyx.exe not working

2005-06-22 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: I thought that in Windows that putting the prime directive in the path was sufficient since dos searches all the sub-directories unlike *nix? Really? Weird. No, it does not recurse into sub-directories. Regards, Asger

Re: Windows installer version 15 unworkable on win98?

2005-06-20 Thread Asger Alstrup
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: But we should require more of the people that actually want this to do the work. I did write that batch-file. The total work to do a shell-script from scratch would be more work than using the batch-file that was there. You are right that I do not send polished

Re: Windows installer version 15 unworkable on win98?

2005-06-20 Thread Asger Alstrup
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: I have no idea what this is adhering to. You wrote : But we should require more of the people that actually want this to do the work. Maybe I misunderstood. What did you mean by this comment? Regards, Asger

Re: Windows installer version 15 unworkable on win98?

2005-06-20 Thread Asger Alstrup
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: But we should require more of the people that actually want this to do the work. I did write that batch-file. The total work to do a shell-script from scratch would be more work than using the batch-file that was there. You are right that I do not send polished

Re: Windows installer version 15 unworkable on win98?

2005-06-20 Thread Asger Alstrup
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: I have no idea what this is adhering to. You wrote : > But we should require more of the people that actually want this to do > the work. Maybe I misunderstood. What did you mean by this comment? Regards, Asger

Opening PDFs

2005-06-17 Thread Asger Alstrup
Hi, I attach some code that can open PDFs using DDE, which is the API interface. It also allows you to go to a specific page, and so on. It has been tested with a range of different Acrobat versions on all windows versions. It would be simple to extend this with other methods, such as close,

Re: Opening PDFs

2005-06-17 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: Where does 'gstring' come from? There ain't no typedef to std::string. I took the code from somewhere else and tried to make it self-contained, although I obviously didn't succeed. AcrobatReader::AcrobatReader( gstring const an ) : Just change to std::string, and

Opening PDFs

2005-06-17 Thread Asger Alstrup
Hi, I attach some code that can open PDFs using DDE, which is the API interface. It also allows you to go to a specific page, and so on. It has been tested with a range of different Acrobat versions on all windows versions. It would be simple to extend this with other methods, such as close,

Re: Opening PDFs

2005-06-17 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: Where does 'gstring' come from? There ain't no typedef to std::string. I took the code from somewhere else and tried to make it self-contained, although I obviously didn't succeed. AcrobatReader::AcrobatReader( gstring const & an ) : Just change to std::string, and

Re: [LyXWin Installer] new small version for testing

2005-06-14 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: Well, as I said to Jean-Marc earlier, I'm going to cut back on my LyX activities in the very near future. Good for you, and congratulations with the delivery to come! Regards, Asger

Re: The LANG environment variable...

2005-06-14 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: That way, Uwe wouldn't set LANG globably from the Windows installer but rather would get the configure script to output \ui_language de_DE to lyxrc.defaults. Thoughts? Looks good to me. I was thinking the same, except that I was leaning towards a command-line

Re: [LyXWin Installer] new small version for testing - updated

2005-06-14 Thread Asger Alstrup
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I agree with you. Here my proposal: http://fkurth.de/uwest/LyX/Installer/lyx_setup_136proposal.exe When I run it, it finds out that I lack LaTeX, but it does not display any link or other information about where I can get it. See attached. Clicking next just exits the

Re: [LyXWin Installer] new small version for testing

2005-06-14 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: Well, as I said to Jean-Marc earlier, I'm going to cut back on my LyX activities in the very near future. Good for you, and congratulations with the delivery to come! Regards, Asger

Re: The LANG environment variable...

2005-06-14 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: That way, Uwe wouldn't set LANG globably from the Windows installer but rather would get the configure script to output \ui_language de_DE to lyxrc.defaults. Thoughts? Looks good to me. I was thinking the same, except that I was leaning towards a command-line

Re: [LyXWin Installer] new small version for testing - updated

2005-06-14 Thread Asger Alstrup
Uwe Stöhr wrote: I agree with you. Here my proposal: http://fkurth.de/uwest/LyX/Installer/lyx_setup_136proposal.exe When I run it, it finds out that I lack LaTeX, but it does not display any link or other information about where I can get it. See attached. Clicking next just exits the

Re: The LyX icon --- both 1.3.6 and 1.4.x

2005-06-13 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: 128x128 is too big for Windows (32x32 seems to be the norm). But if you made SVG files out of these then it's really easy to make smaller bitmaps and then clean them up in the gimp. You can associate 64x64 icons as well. There is a lot of black voodoo involved, but you

Re: The LyX icon --- both 1.3.6 and 1.4.x

2005-06-13 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: 128x128 is too big for Windows (32x32 seems to be the norm). But if you made SVG files out of these then it's really easy to make smaller bitmaps and then clean them up in the gimp. You can associate 64x64 icons as well. There is a lot of black voodoo involved, but you

Re: tex2lyx + international characters = redundant braces in lyx (1.3)?

2005-06-02 Thread Asger Alstrup
Sven Schreiber wrote: Yes and no, it answered a lot, but the misunderstanding I had was much more basic: I simply wasn't aware that oe-lig is not officially western (in contrast to the danish ae-lig, for example). æ is not a ligature. It is a separate letter, just like ä is a separate letter

Re: tex2lyx + international characters = redundant braces in lyx (1.3)?

2005-06-02 Thread Asger Alstrup
Sven Schreiber wrote: Yes and no, it answered a lot, but the misunderstanding I had was much more basic: I simply wasn't aware that oe-lig is not officially "western" (in contrast to the danish ae-lig, for example). æ is not a ligature. It is a separate letter, just like ä is a separate

Re: Windows installer

2005-06-01 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: Asger Alstrup wrote: Another bug: When you uninstall, it does not unregister the .lyx file association. I don't see this. It turned out that the Windows icon cache was playing tricks with me. A reboot changed the icon from the LyX create on a paper back to the Notepad

Re: Script alternative - Ch (Was: Windows installer)

2005-06-01 Thread Asger Alstrup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The language called Ch might be an alternative, I guess it's advantage is that it's a superset of normal C, which everybody here already knows. Having said that, I've never actually done more with it than checked that I could actually write C statements on its shell

Re: Windows installer

2005-06-01 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: Asger Alstrup wrote: Another bug: When you uninstall, it does not unregister the .lyx file association. I don't see this. It turned out that the Windows icon cache was playing tricks with me. A reboot changed the icon from the LyX create on a paper back to the Notepad

Re: Script alternative - Ch (Was: Windows installer)

2005-06-01 Thread Asger Alstrup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The language called "Ch" might be an alternative, I guess it's advantage is that it's a superset of normal C, which everybody here already knows. Having said that, I've never actually done more with it than checked that I could actually write C statements on its shell

Re: LyX meeting in Paris. What about July 14-18?

2005-05-31 Thread Asger Alstrup
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I was just gratuitously bitching about the flight to/from Paris, since you said yourself it was too slow and too expensive... Ah, I see. Yes, I'll just let you have all the pain :-) The only compensation is a hot climate, a nice swimming pool, a nice view, and all

Re: Windows installer

2005-05-31 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: I think I'd like to add this to development/Windows. OK? Go ahead. You can find the resulting installer itself at http://www.devel.lyx.org/~leeming/lyx_setup_136.exe. It's 5.8 MB in size. As such, I'm quite pleased with the installer. Me too. Good work! However, it

Re: Windows installer

2005-05-31 Thread Asger Alstrup
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I see two possibilities: - rewrite in python - rewrite in C++ inside LyX. I am not sure how maintainable it would be. As I said, other projects have decided to use JavaScript. That is better than Python, since it does not require Python. JavaScript is part of

Re: Windows installer

2005-05-31 Thread Asger Alstrup
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: But we already require python. And what do you mean by 'part of the OS'? We only require Python for lyx2lyx, and some of the converters. Besides that, LyX is fully usable without Python: You can author a document from scratch, and produce a working PDF without

Re: Windows installer

2005-05-31 Thread Asger Alstrup
Another bug: When you uninstall, it does not unregister the .lyx file association. Regards, Asger

Re: Windows installer

2005-05-31 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: Asger Alstrup wrote: [Rewrite configure] I can do only so much, Asger :) Yes, and somehow you manage to do it all anyway! It's fantastic ;-) Looking for minSYS is a bit more complicated because it doesn't write to the registry at all. The trick, apparently is to look

Re: Windows installer

2005-05-31 Thread Asger Alstrup
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Asger == Asger Alstrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Asger JavaScript comes with Windows (or more correctly Internet Asger Explorer). You do not have to install anything to get that. You remember we support other OSes, do you? We do? Why didn't anybody tell me? I

Re: Windows installer

2005-05-31 Thread Asger Alstrup
Georg Baum wrote: The conclusion seems obvious to me... I even remember that the conclusion was spelled out: Use python and nothing else. And it is IMHO the only reasonable choice with regard to the lacking manpower. Well, well, well. I disagree. I think C++ would be better than Python: -

Re: LyX meeting in Paris. What about July 14-18?

2005-05-31 Thread Asger Alstrup
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I was just gratuitously bitching about the flight to/from Paris, since you said yourself it was too slow and too expensive... Ah, I see. Yes, I'll just let you have all the pain :-) The only compensation is a hot climate, a nice swimming pool, a nice view, and all

Re: Windows installer

2005-05-31 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: I think I'd like to add this to development/Windows. OK? Go ahead. You can find the resulting installer itself at http://www.devel.lyx.org/~leeming/lyx_setup_136.exe. It's 5.8 MB in size. As such, I'm quite pleased with the installer. Me too. Good work! > However,

Re: Windows installer

2005-05-31 Thread Asger Alstrup
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I see two possibilities: - rewrite in python - rewrite in C++ inside LyX. I am not sure how maintainable it would be. As I said, other projects have decided to use JavaScript. That is better than Python, since it does not require Python. JavaScript is part of

Re: Windows installer

2005-05-31 Thread Asger Alstrup
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: But we already require python. And what do you mean by 'part of the OS'? We only require Python for lyx2lyx, and some of the converters. Besides that, LyX is fully usable without Python: You can author a document from scratch, and produce a working PDF without

Re: Windows installer

2005-05-31 Thread Asger Alstrup
Another bug: When you uninstall, it does not unregister the .lyx file association. Regards, Asger

Re: Windows installer

2005-05-31 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: Asger Alstrup wrote: >>[Rewrite configure] I can do only so much, Asger :) Yes, and somehow you manage to do it all anyway! It's fantastic ;-) Looking for minSYS is a bit more complicated because it doesn't write to the registry at all. The trick, apparently is t

Re: Windows installer

2005-05-31 Thread Asger Alstrup
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Asger" == Asger Alstrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Asger> JavaScript comes with Windows (or more correctly Internet Asger> Explorer). You do not have to install anything to get that. You remember we support other OSes, do you? We do? Why

Re: Windows installer

2005-05-31 Thread Asger Alstrup
Georg Baum wrote: The conclusion seems obvious to me... I even remember that the conclusion was spelled out: Use python and nothing else. And it is IMHO the only reasonable choice with regard to the lacking manpower. Well, well, well. I disagree. I think C++ would be better than Python: -

Re: LyX meeting in Paris. What about July 14-18?

2005-05-30 Thread Asger Alstrup
Who knows what internet connection is available next year? Also, I'm consider X modems. They told me that each phone line is very cheap, so... Regards, Asger

Re: LyX meeting in Paris. What about July 14-18?

2005-05-30 Thread Asger Alstrup
Who knows what internet connection is available next year? Also, I'm consider X modems. They told me that each phone line is very cheap, so... Regards, Asger

Re: LyX meeting in Paris. What about July 14-18?

2005-05-25 Thread Asger Alstrup
Hi, Jean-Marc, I've been trying to find air tickets from Turkey to Paris and back, but I have a hard time to find anything useful. Maybe you know of some good web-sites with flights to/from France that can help? The best so far is a 6½ hour $600 flight over Istanbul found using

Re: LyX meeting in Paris. What about July 14-18?

2005-05-25 Thread Asger Alstrup
Hi, Jean-Marc, I've been trying to find air tickets from Turkey to Paris and back, but I have a hard time to find anything useful. Maybe you know of some good web-sites with flights to/from France that can help? The best so far is a 6½ hour $600 flight over Istanbul found using

Re: Working LyX icons on Windows, but...

2005-05-23 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: Next problem. The lyx shortcut and lyx entry in the start menu are present only for the user who installed lyx. (In this case the administrator.) How do I get the installer to do so for all users? I guess that this is another registry question. HKEY_CURRENT_USER contains

Re: Working LyX icons on Windows, but...

2005-05-23 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: Next problem. The lyx shortcut and lyx entry in the start menu are present only for the user who installed lyx. (In this case the administrator.) How do I get the installer to do so for all users? I guess that this is another registry question. HKEY_CURRENT_USER contains

Re: Packaging of LyX/Win 1.3.6

2005-05-20 Thread Asger Alstrup
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: Asger Ottar Alstrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | You want to use NSIS: | http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ Is that what OpenVPN uses? Looking at http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/openvpn/openvpn/install-win32/ you can see the tell-tale sign of .nsi files, so it seems it

Re: Packaging of LyX/Win 1.3.6

2005-05-20 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: Ok, Asger, I have created the absolute bare minimum installer. Sounds good. * Check for various utilities and, if not found, offer to download them. I'm thinking of * python * perl (used by reLyX) * msys * imagemagick We have a variable \path_prefix in the

Re: Packaging of LyX/Win 1.3.6

2005-05-20 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: Asger, I take it that you're fairly experienced in using this app? Can I ask you some questions? Not at all - my programmers are, but I've only touched it superfluously. This page http://nsis.sourceforge.net/archive/viewpage.php?pageid=282 explains how to associate a file

Re: Packaging of LyX/Win 1.3.6

2005-05-20 Thread Asger Alstrup
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: Asger Ottar Alstrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | You want to use NSIS: | http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ Is that what OpenVPN uses? Looking at http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/openvpn/openvpn/install-win32/ you can see the tell-tale sign of .nsi files, so it seems it

Re: Packaging of LyX/Win 1.3.6

2005-05-20 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: Ok, Asger, I have created the absolute bare minimum installer. Sounds good. * Check for various utilities and, if not found, offer to download them. I'm thinking of * python * perl (used by reLyX) * msys * imagemagick We have a variable \path_prefix in the

Re: Packaging of LyX/Win 1.3.6

2005-05-20 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: Asger, I take it that you're fairly experienced in using this app? Can I ask you some questions? Not at all - my programmers are, but I've only touched it superfluously. This page http://nsis.sourceforge.net/archive/viewpage.php?pageid=282 explains how to associate a file

Re: Adding a new encoding, windows-1256 (cp1256)

2005-05-18 Thread Asger Alstrup
Dear Hossein, The LyX team is always looking to extend the number of languages supported, and Persian support would be great - especially because the current Hebrew and Arabic support is not maintained actively. If you could implement Persian support, I guess that would also increase the chance

Re: Adding a new encoding, windows-1256 (cp1256)

2005-05-18 Thread Asger Alstrup
Dear Hossein, The LyX team is always looking to extend the number of languages supported, and Persian support would be great - especially because the current Hebrew and Arabic support is not maintained actively. If you could implement Persian support, I guess that would also increase the chance

[Fwd: [Monotone-devel] new Monotone under Cygwin timings]

2005-05-17 Thread Asger Alstrup
Hi, I just stumbled across this mail on the monotone mailing list, which advises to use the non-thread-safe libraries to get a 3 factor speed-up on a Cygwin binary. Might be interesting to investigate for those that compiled LyX with Cygwin. Regards, Asger ---BeginMessage--- For the benefit the

[Fwd: [Monotone-devel] new Monotone under Cygwin timings]

2005-05-17 Thread Asger Alstrup
Hi, I just stumbled across this mail on the monotone mailing list, which advises to use the non-thread-safe libraries to get a 3 factor speed-up on a Cygwin binary. Might be interesting to investigate for those that compiled LyX with Cygwin. Regards, Asger --- Begin Message --- For the benefit

Re: LyX meeting in Paris. When?

2005-05-11 Thread Asger Alstrup
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: Asger Ottar Alstrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Jul 16Jul 23Jul 30 Aug 06 JMarc 5 5 5 5 Jose' 5 5 0 0 Lars 4 4 5 5 Michael5 0

Re: Profiling LyX-140 on Mac

2005-05-11 Thread Asger Alstrup
Martin Vermeer wrote: On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 17:02, Lars Gullik Bjnnes wrote: How can events be reordered? Precisely my question. Did you check that your keyboard queue is really a queue, and not a stack? Regards, Asger

Re: LyX meeting in Paris. When?

2005-05-11 Thread Asger Alstrup
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: Asger Ottar Alstrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Jul 16Jul 23Jul 30 Aug 06 JMarc 5 5 5 5 Jose' 5 5 0 0 Lars 4 4 5 5 Michael5 0

Re: Profiling LyX-140 on Mac

2005-05-11 Thread Asger Alstrup
Martin Vermeer wrote: On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 17:02, Lars Gullik BjÃnnes wrote: How can events be reordered? Precisely my question. Did you check that your keyboard queue is really a queue, and not a stack? Regards, Asger

Re: [Patch] Re: [Patch] Re: nested updates

2005-05-10 Thread Asger Alstrup
Great! I was frankly a bit surprised that Qt would fire events without any reason. Good to learn that it doesn't. FYI, the native Windows API does not do this either, except if you try to use multimedia. When you start a movieclip, windows will process messages. Urgh! When you go look in the

Re: [Patch] Re: [Patch] Re: nested updates

2005-05-10 Thread Asger Alstrup
Great! I was frankly a bit surprised that Qt would fire events without any reason. Good to learn that it doesn't. FYI, the native Windows API does not do this either, except if you try to use multimedia. When you start a movieclip, windows will process messages. Urgh! When you go look in the

Re: [Patch] Re: nested updates

2005-05-09 Thread Asger Alstrup
Martin Vermeer wrote: 1) keystrokes 2) mouse movements/clicks 3) things coming from the dialogs through kernel dispatch. 4) (The minibuffer?) The basic question is this: The common thing for all of these is that they are consequences of a processEvent call, right? So, if we can just delay

Re: [Patch] Re: nested updates

2005-05-09 Thread Asger Alstrup
Martin Vermeer wrote: No, I actually don't think so. Do they have _anything_ in common? All I can think of is 1) they are all handled asynchronously, through signals/slots, and 2) they are represented by LFUNs. But I don't see how that gives a single point of control. Or does it? How? What I

Re: [Patch] Re: nested updates

2005-05-09 Thread Asger Alstrup
Martin Vermeer wrote: > 1) keystrokes > 2) mouse movements/clicks > 3) things coming from the dialogs through kernel dispatch. > 4) (The minibuffer?) The basic question is this: The common thing for all of these is that they are consequences of a processEvent call, right? So, if we can just

Re: [Patch] Re: nested updates

2005-05-09 Thread Asger Alstrup
Martin Vermeer wrote: No, I actually don't think so. Do they have _anything_ in common? All I can think of is 1) they are all handled asynchronously, through signals/slots, and 2) they are represented by LFUNs. But I don't see how that gives a single point of control. Or does it? How? What I

Re: Wrong symbol displayed for third level bullet list

2005-04-29 Thread Asger Alstrup
Martin Vermeer wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: So I tried the degree symbol: Other votes on this? I do not think that will work with anything but ISO-8859-1, i.e. latin 1. So Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese etc. will show garbage. I say keep the * at level 1, or fix it to use the math thing.

Re: Wrong symbol displayed for third level bullet list

2005-04-29 Thread Asger Alstrup
Martin Vermeer wrote: >Helge Hafting wrote: So I tried the degree symbol: Â Other votes on this? I do not think that will work with anything but ISO-8859-1, i.e. latin 1. So Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese etc. will show garbage. I say keep the * at level 1, or fix it to use the math thing.

Re: Fwd: LyX

2005-04-28 Thread Asger Alstrup
Dear Roberto, Hi, I am the developer of Kat ( http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=22135 ) Kat uses a series of plugins to extract fulltext from files. I am collaborating with the KDE project KPDF and KOffice to build the plugins to manage their formats. I would like to ask you

Re: Fwd: LyX

2005-04-28 Thread Asger Alstrup
Dear Roberto, > Hi, I am the developer of Kat > ( http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=22135 ) > > Kat uses a series of plugins to extract fulltext from files. > I am collaborating with the KDE project KPDF and KOffice to build > the plugins to manage their formats. > > I would like to

Re: LyX meeting in Paris. When?

2005-04-21 Thread Asger Alstrup
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Jul 16Jul 23Jul 30 Aug 06 JMarc 5 5 5 5 Jose' 5 5 0 0 Lars 5 5 5 5 Michael5 0 0 0 Andre' 5 5 5 5 Alfredo0

Re: LyX meeting in Paris. When?

2005-04-21 Thread Asger Alstrup
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Jul 16Jul 23Jul 30 Aug 06 JMarc 5 5 5 5 Jose' 5 5 0 0 Lars 5 5 5 5 Michael5 0 0 0 Andre' 5 5 5 5 Alfredo0

Re: LyX meeting in Paris. When?

2005-04-19 Thread Asger Alstrup
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Asger == Asger Ottar Alstrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Asger No good for me. We bought a house in Turkey, and we are going Asger there to see it, decorate it, and enjoy it for three weeks Asger starting from the second week of July. Is there internet access there? Just

Re: LyX meeting in Paris. When?

2005-04-19 Thread Asger Alstrup
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Where is it? It's in Yalkarvak on the Bodrum peninsula: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=addresscountry=TRformtype=addressaddtohistory=location=OByyLVuYfVoegQSvvFGo%2fWzHZknBIaN2HHB8D4nTDC%2bHL2sp1al0NOwvQrj%2fvi%2bhLY%2bt4CeuxqZO5qxTCTRMqXx3Y6o%2fa0E1

Re: LyX meeting in Paris. When?

2005-04-19 Thread Asger Alstrup
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I do not know much this part of Turkey, but it is said to be very nice... Yes, I like it a lot. It is not as humid as the area around Alanya and Antalya. It is a bit expensive compared to other areas of Turkey, but still cheap compared to Denmark. PS: Google tends to

Re: LyX meeting in Paris. When?

2005-04-19 Thread Asger Alstrup
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Asger" == Asger Ottar Alstrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Asger> No good for me. We bought a house in Turkey, and we are going Asger> there to see it, decorate it, and enjoy it for three weeks Asger> starting from the second week of July. Is there internet access

Re: LyX meeting in Paris. When?

2005-04-19 Thread Asger Alstrup
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Where is it? It's in YalÄkarvak on the Bodrum peninsula: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address=TR=address==OByyLVuYfVoegQSvvFGo%2fWzHZknBIaN2HHB8D4nTDC%2bHL2sp1al0NOwvQrj%2fvi%2bhLY%2bt4CeuxqZO5qxTCTRMqXx3Y6o%2fa0E1 Regards, Asger

Re: LyX meeting in Paris. When?

2005-04-19 Thread Asger Alstrup
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I do not know much this part of Turkey, but it is said to be very nice... Yes, I like it a lot. It is not as humid as the area around Alanya and Antalya. It is a bit expensive compared to other areas of Turkey, but still cheap compared to Denmark. PS: Google tends to

Re: blanket-permission.txt status update

2005-04-05 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: None of 'em look like major contributers of code to me, but my connections to LyX go back only to the start of the millenium. Four of the names I recognise and my old brain kind of associates them with significant contributions... You might want to focus the search for those

Re: blanket-permission.txt status update

2005-04-05 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: None of 'em look like "major" contributers of code to me, but my connections to LyX go back only to the start of the millenium. Four of the names I recognise and my old brain kind of associates them with significant contributions... You might want to focus the search for

Re: [patch] new scrollbar code

2005-03-31 Thread Asger Alstrup
I believe that a fixed sized scroll bar is a significant regression in terms of usability. Also, I think that a very unreliable scroll bar is a problem. The scroll bar can change a few pixels, but if it jumps much more than that, it is confusing. I did not test the new scrollbar, but if you

Re: Towards LyX 1.3.6 [status update #1]

2005-03-31 Thread Asger Alstrup
The tradition about displaying nice paths on windows does not exist: Either you do the complicated: C:\Documents and settings\alstrup\My documents\My file.lyx C:\Documents and settings\alstrup\Desktop\My second file.lyx C:\My third file.lyx or you ignore the path and just do (like all the

Re: [patch] new scrollbar code

2005-03-31 Thread Asger Alstrup
John Levon wrote: To improve further, consider the insets in the paragraph by having a default size for each type and take that into account. Now, we are linear There's no such thing as a linear size for figures, so this is guaranteed to go wrong in the worst possible cases (very large figures).

Re: Towards LyX 1.3.6 [status update #1]

2005-03-31 Thread Asger Alstrup
Angus Leeming wrote: Asger Alstrup wrote: The tradition about displaying nice paths on windows does not exist: So you think that having such functionality is a bad thing for LyX/Win? The only real problem here seems to be the ~ abbreviation. Well, it is not necessarily a bad thing

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