Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-25 Thread Jose' Matos
On Friday 25 November 2005 21:20, Luis Rivera wrote: > Michael Gerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Bo Peng wrote: > > >For configure, you can use the 'experimental configure.py' available > > >at cvs, which is for 1.4.0 though. (I do have a version for 1.3.6 but > > >it is less tested, search the

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-25 Thread Luis Rivera
Michael Gerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bo Peng wrote: > >For configure, you can use the 'experimental configure.py' available > >at cvs, which is for 1.4.0 though. (I do have a version for 1.3.6 but > >it is less tested, search the list archive for it.) Mingw is also used > >for four or five sm

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Asger Ottar Alstrup
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Btw. I set the default screen fonts and their zoom now manually in my installer to avoid further problems. I use Times New Roman Arial Courier Zoom = 120% Please use "Courier New" instead. "Courier" is a bitmap font that scales badly, while Courier New is a true-type font, wh

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Bo Peng
> What would be the advantage? > (Getting rid of the MSYS files saves only 1.2 MB and the scripts that > use them are well tested.) Using the old windows installer, getting rid of mingw means one less website to visit and one less program to install. With the new installer, yes, you are right, min

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bo Peng wrote: For configure, you can use the 'experimental configure.py' available at cvs, which is for 1.4.0 though. (I do have a version for 1.3.6 but it is less tested, search the list archive for it.) Mingw is also used for four or five small scripts under the scripts directory. They are ea

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Michael Gerz schrieb: Great! Did you use Cutie > 2005-10-30 ? (There have been no commit since then) This should fix our font problems on Windows. Btw. I set the default screen fonts and their zoom now manually in my installer to avoid further problems. I use Times New Roman Arial Courier Zo

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Michael Gerz schrieb: Are the UNIX command line tools (in particular 'sh') needed for any other purpose than the "configure" script? Jep. We need them to list e.g. the TeX-Informations and to invoke ImageMagick. If we were able to ignore the shell tools (MSYS), the size of the installer wo

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Michael Gerz
Angus Leeming wrote: Great! Did you use Cutie > 2005-10-30 ? (There have been no commit since then) Sure there has. They changed their repository from kde-cygwin to qtwin... Your CVS/Root files should read: :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/qtwin Everything else is unchanged, IIRC.

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Michael Gerz wrote: > Are the UNIX command line tools (in particular 'sh') needed for any > other purpose than the "configure" script? Yes. We currently generate small shell scripts on the fly to control the conversion of graphics files for display. -- Angus

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Michael Gerz
Bo Peng wrote: For configure, you can use the 'experimental configure.py' available at cvs, which is for 1.4.0 though. (I do have a version for 1.3.6 but it is less tested, search the list archive for it.) Mingw is also used for four or five small scripts under the scripts directory. They are ea

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Bo Peng
> Are the UNIX command line tools (in particular 'sh') needed for any > other purpose than the "configure" script? If we were able to ignore the > shell tools (MSYS), the size of the installer would shrink dramatically, > I guess. For configure, you can use the 'experimental configure.py' availabl

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Angus Leeming
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 22:06, Michael Gerz wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: > >I compiled 1.3.7cvs with MinGW/MSYS yesterday. I'll package it up using > >"my" packager (the packaged version uses 7-zip compression and is *much* > >smaller than even a bzip2 compressed archive and shove it on the wi

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Michael Gerz
Angus Leeming wrote: I compiled 1.3.7cvs with MinGW/MSYS yesterday. I'll package it up using "my" packager (the packaged version uses 7-zip compression and is *much* smaller than even a bzip2 compressed archive and shove it on the wiki. Tomorrow probably. Thereafter, you can unpackage and repack

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Michael Gerz
Uwe Stöhr wrote: That I added/changed some icons in LyX's menu bar is just a special gimmick. I've installed LyX for many people and most of them wanted for example an icon for "search" in LyX's menu bar and a shortcut to Export -> PDF (pdflatex). So I thaught if these small bits make users h

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LyX-Users" Cc: "LyX-Devel" Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 9:25 AM Subject: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller Hello LyXers, with the help from many people I'

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Michael" == Michael Gerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> I agree. What we could do is backporting tex2lyx to 1.3.7cvs. I think this is too difficult and would require to fork tex2lyx. JMarc

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 08:44, Georg Baum wrote: > Having said that I also need to say that I don't think that bigger changes > should be done in 1.3.x anymore. The time to integrate tex2lyx for example > is better spent in testing 1.4cvs. We should get that out as soon as > possible. I agre

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Georg Baum
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > I understand you. > The icons I mentioned shouldn't be a problem. They are only used for the > installer executables itself and for the lyx-files in Windows > file-explorer. That I added/changed some icons in LyX's menu bar is just a > special gimmick. I've installed LyX for man

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > If you think that these things are really important, change the > > version number in the configure.ac to "1.3.6-uwe1" or something like > > that, so that it is easy to tell which version somebody has. > > I agree with you but as I'm not able to compile LyX by myself I cann

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Georg Baum wrote: > - use "tex2lyx" instead of "reLyX" as default LaTeX -> LyX converter > - new icons > Please don't do that. I can very well understand the desire to have > the new icons and tex2lyx, but IMO all LyX versions that are called > "1.3.6" should be the same. Otherwise the maintenan

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-21 Thread Michael Gerz
Georg Baum wrote: - use "tex2lyx" instead of "reLyX" as default LaTeX -> LyX converter - new icons Please don't do that. I can very well understand the desire to have the new icons and tex2lyx, but IMO all LyX versions that are called "1.3.6" should be the same. Otherwise the maintenance b

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-21 Thread Georg Baum
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > - use "tex2lyx" instead of "reLyX" as default LaTeX -> LyX converter > - new icons Please don't do that. I can very well understand the desire to have the new icons and tex2lyx, but IMO all LyX versions that are called "1.3.6" should be the same. Otherwise the maintenance burde

[announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, with the help from many people I'm now able to present the new version 0.4 of the LyX installer for Windows. You can download it from http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117&release_id=8085 The sources are at http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.p