Re: LyX and Scientific Word/Workplace

2008-04-16 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Ken wrote: Hi. There is a Wiki page on importing Scientific Workplace (SWP) documents into LyX: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/ImportingFromSWP but I can not seem to find any information on import a LyX document into SWP. I love using LyX but my co-author uses Scientific Word/Workplace. I don't want

Re: LyX and Scientific Word/Workplace

2008-04-16 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Ken wrote: Hi. There is a Wiki page on importing Scientific Workplace (SWP) documents into LyX: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/ImportingFromSWP but I can not seem to find any information on import a LyX document into SWP. I love using LyX but my co-author uses Scientific Word/Workplace. I don't want

Re: Need Urgent Help

2008-03-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Liviu Andronic wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Ankur Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: without the equations. But I cannot export a pdf or dvi, when I copy the equations into the .lyx file. Could not say whether this would lead anywhere, but how exactly did you enter the equations

Re: Banner, Splash Screen, Logo, Mascot, Name, oh my!

2008-03-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: Guys, don't you believe your investing way too much time in this line of problems? :) It's for the first time in ten years or so. So that's a relatively minor portion of the developers time. It's also spring cleaning time,

Re: Need Urgent Help

2008-03-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Liviu Andronic wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Ankur Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: without the equations. But I cannot export a pdf or dvi, when I copy the equations into the .lyx file. Could not say whether this would lead anywhere, but how exactly did you enter the equations

Re: Banner, Splash Screen, Logo, Mascot, Name, oh my!

2008-03-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: Guys, don't you believe your investing way too much time in this line of problems? :) It's for the first time in ten years or so. So that's a relatively minor portion of the developers time. It's also spring cleaning time,

Re: Need Urgent Help

2008-03-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Liviu Andronic wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Ankur Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: without the equations. But I cannot export a pdf or dvi, when I copy the equations into the .lyx file. Could not say whether this would lead anywhere, but how exactly did you enter the equations

Re: Banner, Splash Screen, Logo, Mascot, Name, oh my!

2008-03-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: Guys, don't you believe your "investing" way too much time in this line of "problems"? :) It's for the first time in ten years or so. So that's a relatively minor portion of the developers time. It's also spring cleaning

Re: Spellchecker for LyX doesn't work as well as expected

2008-03-12 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Charles de Miramon wrote: G. Milde wrote: On 12.03.08, Dominik Böhm wrote: I just installed aspell German to use it with LyX. ... In German you cannot compound arbitrary words to new words. ... So, for German this compound setting seems to be pretty useless. hunspell seems to work

Re: Spellchecker for LyX doesn't work as well as expected

2008-03-12 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Charles de Miramon wrote: G. Milde wrote: On 12.03.08, Dominik Böhm wrote: I just installed aspell German to use it with LyX. ... In German you cannot compound arbitrary words to new words. ... So, for German this compound setting seems to be pretty useless. hunspell seems to work

Re: Spellchecker for LyX doesn't work as well as expected

2008-03-12 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Charles de Miramon wrote: G. Milde wrote: On 12.03.08, Dominik Böhm wrote: I just installed aspell German to use it with LyX. ... In German you cannot compound arbitrary words to new words. ... So, for German this compound setting seems to be pretty useless. hunspell seems to work

Re: short title

2008-03-11 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
jean beney wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Is it possible in LyX to define a short book title? Another option would be to make your title shorter and make use of subtitle. Unfortunately, this option does not seem to exist in LyX. Which document class are you using? Book koma-script has

Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-11 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Maximilian Wollner wrote: Hello everybody, Somehow, I find it difficult to use mailing lists, maybe I am a too young computer and internet user but I can not see a single advantage. So I tried to look around for LyX discussion boards but can't find any. Do you know of any? Or is there any

Re: short title

2008-03-11 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
jean beney wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Is it possible in LyX to define a short book title? Another option would be to make your title shorter and make use of subtitle. Unfortunately, this option does not seem to exist in LyX. Which document class are you using? Book koma-script has

Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-11 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Maximilian Wollner wrote: Hello everybody, Somehow, I find it difficult to use mailing lists, maybe I am a too young computer and internet user but I can not see a single advantage. So I tried to look around for LyX discussion boards but can't find any. Do you know of any? Or is there any

Re: short title

2008-03-11 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
jean beney wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Is it possible in LyX to define a short book title? Another option would be to make your title shorter and make use of subtitle. Unfortunately, this option does not seem to exist in LyX. Which document class are you using? Book koma-script has

Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-11 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Maximilian Wollner wrote: Hello everybody, Somehow, I find it difficult to use mailing lists, maybe I am a too young computer and internet user but I can not see a single advantage. So I tried to look around for LyX discussion boards but can't find any. Do you know of any? Or is there any

Re: short title

2008-03-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
jean beney wrote: Hello, Is it possible in LyX to define a short book title? When I am on the book title, the short title button is disabled. The class I work with has been built from book and it puts the book title in the top margin of even pages instead of the chapter name. Another

Re: How do you do an appendix the right way?

2008-03-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, How does one do an appendix the right way. I want it to show up, at the same level as chapters, in the table of contents. But I want it to say Appendix A: SSH Example rather than Chapter 13: Appendix A: SSH Example. What environment to I use for the Appendix title?

Re: short title

2008-03-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
jean beney wrote: Hello, Is it possible in LyX to define a short book title? When I am on the book title, the short title button is disabled. The class I work with has been built from book and it puts the book title in the top margin of even pages instead of the chapter name. Another

Re: How do you do an appendix the right way?

2008-03-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, How does one do an appendix the right way. I want it to show up, at the same level as chapters, in the table of contents. But I want it to say Appendix A: SSH Example rather than Chapter 13: Appendix A: SSH Example. What environment to I use for the Appendix title?

Re: short title

2008-03-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
jean beney wrote: Hello, Is it possible in LyX to define a short book title? When I am on the book title, the "short title" button is disabled. The class I work with has been built from book and it puts the book title in the top margin of even pages instead of the chapter name. Another

Re: How do you do an appendix the right way?

2008-03-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, How does one do an appendix the right way. I want it to show up, at the same level as chapters, in the table of contents. But I want it to say "Appendix A: SSH Example" rather than "Chapter 13: Appendix A: SSH Example". What environment to I use for the Appendix

Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-08 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
rgheck wrote: William R. Buckley wrote: I have need for the LNCS layout, and am having trouble using this with LyX. You will perhaps like to know that my prior experience with any TeX is zero. In the past, I have used WYSIWYG systems (Ventura Publisher is my first choice, though I am also

Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-08 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
rgheck wrote: William R. Buckley wrote: I have need for the LNCS layout, and am having trouble using this with LyX. You will perhaps like to know that my prior experience with any TeX is zero. In the past, I have used WYSIWYG systems (Ventura Publisher is my first choice, though I am also

Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

2008-03-08 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
rgheck wrote: William R. Buckley wrote: I have need for the LNCS layout, and am having trouble using this with LyX. You will perhaps like to know that my prior experience with any TeX is zero. In the past, I have used WYSIWYG systems (Ventura Publisher is my first choice, though I am also

Re: Adding space to end of sentence adds spaces inside character styles

2008-03-07 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just had a situation with two character style insets inside a sentence. When I add spaces or other characters at the end of the sentence, spaces or other characters are added inside the insets. I'm using 1.5.3. You can see this behavior with the attached

Re: Adding space to end of sentence adds spaces inside character styles

2008-03-07 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just had a situation with two character style insets inside a sentence. When I add spaces or other characters at the end of the sentence, spaces or other characters are added inside the insets. I'm using 1.5.3. You can see this behavior with the attached

Re: Adding space to end of sentence adds spaces inside character styles

2008-03-07 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just had a situation with two character style insets inside a sentence. When I add spaces or other characters at the end of the sentence, spaces or other characters are added inside the insets. I'm using 1.5.3. You can see this behavior with the attached

Re: Missing Toolbar

2008-03-06 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Ben Blamey wrote: Hi, using version 1.5.4 on windows XP. I remember for a few months when I first installed Lyx there was a toolbar with icons that exported pdf, ps etc. But its disappeared and I see nowhere to get it back again. I presume it is a config file somewhere? How about menu

Re: Missing Toolbar

2008-03-06 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Ben Blamey wrote: Hi, using version 1.5.4 on windows XP. I remember for a few months when I first installed Lyx there was a toolbar with icons that exported pdf, ps etc. But its disappeared and I see nowhere to get it back again. I presume it is a config file somewhere? How about menu

Re: Missing Toolbar

2008-03-06 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Ben Blamey wrote: Hi, using version 1.5.4 on windows XP. I remember for a few months when I first installed Lyx there was a toolbar with icons that exported pdf, ps etc. But its disappeared and I see nowhere to get it back again. I presume it is a config file somewhere? How about menu

Re: LyX mac customized icon

2008-03-05 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Bennett Helm wrote: That said, I'm certainly not opposed to changing the icon, especially to one that better evokes what LyX is -- which is not a scientific word processor but a structured document processor. But I do think we should tend to be conservative in this case: having the icon of

Re: LyX mac customized icon

2008-03-05 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Bennett Helm wrote: That said, I'm certainly not opposed to changing the icon, especially to one that better evokes what LyX is -- which is not a scientific word processor but a structured document processor. But I do think we should tend to be conservative in this case: having the icon of

Re: LyX mac customized icon

2008-03-05 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Bennett Helm wrote: That said, I'm certainly not opposed to changing the icon, especially to one that better evokes what LyX is -- which is not a scientific word processor but a structured document processor. But I do think we should tend to be conservative in this case: having the icon of

Re: Navigation toolbar

2008-02-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Nicolás wrote: Hi! When I use the outline to navigate quickly from one section of a document to another, I miss a Go Back feature that would allow me to navigate back to the exact point in the document where the cursor was before I clicked on an item in the outline. You can use bookmarks:

Re: Navigation toolbar

2008-02-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Nicolás wrote: Hi! When I use the outline to navigate quickly from one section of a document to another, I miss a Go Back feature that would allow me to navigate back to the exact point in the document where the cursor was before I clicked on an item in the outline

Re: Navigation toolbar

2008-02-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Nicolás wrote: Hi! When I use the outline to navigate quickly from one section of a document to another, I miss a Go Back feature that would allow me to navigate back to the exact point in the document where the cursor was before I clicked on an item in the outline. You can use bookmarks:

Re: Navigation toolbar

2008-02-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Nicolás wrote: Hi! When I use the outline to navigate quickly from one section of a document to another, I miss a Go Back feature that would allow me to navigate back to the exact point in the document where the cursor was before I clicked on an item in the outline

Re: Navigation toolbar

2008-02-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Nicolás wrote: Hi! When I use the outline to navigate quickly from one section of a document to another, I miss a "Go Back" feature that would allow me to navigate back to the exact point in the document where the cursor was before I clicked on an item in the outline. You can use

Re: Navigation toolbar

2008-02-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Nicolás wrote: Hi! When I use the outline to navigate quickly from one section of a document to another, I miss a "Go Back" feature that would allow me to navigate back to the exact point in the document where the cursor was before I clicked

Re: Click in the scrollbar doesn't advance enough

2008-02-27 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
David Hewitt wrote: Abdelrazak Younes-2 wrote: Clicking in the LyX scrollbar doesn't advance the LyX screen such that the bottom line is now the top. Sometimes it gets close, and sometimes you need to click the scrollbar 2 or 3 times to advance one screenful. There's a lot of scrollbar

Re: Two notes

2008-02-27 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
onlyforum onlyforum wrote: Hi, all I knew Lyx only yesterday and I used it in the previous hours today (I use Windows Vista). The program is a beautiful surprise for me because I do not like to remember orders and write them in command lines to get Latex documents. Thanks, team of Lyx. You are

Re: lyx on solaris9

2008-02-27 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Richard Heck wrote: nuncio wrote: I would like to load lyx in solaris9 on sun OS. is it a painful business ? . If it doesnt go well with solaris, as an alternative I would like to know the best supported unix/linux versions for lyx. I seem to remember that there were some issues with

Re: Click in the scrollbar doesn't advance enough

2008-02-27 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
David Hewitt wrote: Abdelrazak Younes-2 wrote: Clicking in the LyX scrollbar doesn't advance the LyX screen such that the bottom line is now the top. Sometimes it gets close, and sometimes you need to click the scrollbar 2 or 3 times to advance one screenful. There's a lot of scrollbar

Re: Two notes

2008-02-27 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
onlyforum onlyforum wrote: Hi, all I knew Lyx only yesterday and I used it in the previous hours today (I use Windows Vista). The program is a beautiful surprise for me because I do not like to remember orders and write them in command lines to get Latex documents. Thanks, team of Lyx. You are

Re: lyx on solaris9

2008-02-27 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Richard Heck wrote: nuncio wrote: I would like to load lyx in solaris9 on sun OS. is it a painful business ? . If it doesnt go well with solaris, as an alternative I would like to know the best supported unix/linux versions for lyx. I seem to remember that there were some issues with

Re: Click in the scrollbar doesn't advance enough

2008-02-27 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
David Hewitt wrote: Abdelrazak Younes-2 wrote: Clicking in the LyX scrollbar doesn't advance the LyX screen such that the bottom line is now the top. Sometimes it gets close, and sometimes you need to click the scrollbar 2 or 3 times to advance one screenful. There's a lot of scrollbar

Re: Two notes

2008-02-27 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
onlyforum onlyforum wrote: Hi, all I knew Lyx only yesterday and I used it in the previous hours today (I use Windows Vista). The program is a beautiful surprise for me because I do not like to remember orders and write them in command lines to get Latex documents. Thanks, team of Lyx. You are

Re: lyx on solaris9

2008-02-27 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Richard Heck wrote: nuncio wrote: I would like to load lyx in solaris9 on sun OS. is it a painful business ? . If it doesnt go well with solaris, as an alternative I would like to know the best supported unix/linux versions for lyx. I seem to remember that there were some issues with

Re: Click in the scrollbar doesn't advance enough

2008-02-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
rgheck wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Clicking in the LyX scrollbar doesn't advance the LyX screen such that the bottom line is now the top. Sometimes it gets close, and sometimes you need to click the scrollbar 2 or 3 times to advance one screenful. There's a lot of scrollbar weirdness

Re: Click in the scrollbar doesn't advance enough

2008-02-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
rgheck wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Clicking in the LyX scrollbar doesn't advance the LyX screen such that the bottom line is now the top. Sometimes it gets close, and sometimes you need to click the scrollbar 2 or 3 times to advance one screenful. There's a lot of scrollbar weirdness

Re: Click in the scrollbar doesn't advance enough

2008-02-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
rgheck wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Clicking in the LyX scrollbar doesn't advance the LyX screen such that the bottom line is now the top. Sometimes it gets close, and sometimes you need to click the scrollbar 2 or 3 times to advance one screenful. There's a lot of scrollbar weirdness

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-22 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: How much backward compatibility? Here's my belief: Age of tools when distro is created: 6 months Age of distro when installed: 4 months Time between distro upgrades 24 months - Desireable backward compatibility:

Re: Display formula numbering IN Lyx document

2008-02-22 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Kane Kano wrote: Hello everbody, I am working on physics thesis and I would like to know how I could display the number of formerly used equations so that I do not always have to view the pdf-file if I want to refer to a certain equation. You should use labels for that instead of

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-22 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: How much backward compatibility? Here's my belief: Age of tools when distro is created: 6 months Age of distro when installed: 4 months Time between distro upgrades 24 months - Desireable backward compatibility:

Re: Display formula numbering IN Lyx document

2008-02-22 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Kane Kano wrote: Hello everbody, I am working on physics thesis and I would like to know how I could display the number of formerly used equations so that I do not always have to view the pdf-file if I want to refer to a certain equation. You should use labels for that instead of

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-22 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: How much backward compatibility? Here's my belief: Age of tools when distro is created: 6 months Age of distro when installed: 4 months Time between distro upgrades 24 months - Desireable backward compatibility:

Re: Display formula numbering IN Lyx document

2008-02-22 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Kane Kano wrote: Hello everbody, I am working on physics thesis and I would like to know how I could display the number of formerly used equations so that I do not always have to view the pdf-file if I want to refer to a certain equation. You should use labels for that instead of

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Pavel Sanda wrote: Deleting and re-extracting the source tree did the trick. So the steps to cure the problem turned out to be: Good to hear. Steve, if you think that README INSTALL files put you somewhere in the wrong direction, the best you can do is to send us the corrections.

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
G. Milde wrote: On 21.02.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Actually the INSTALL file has been cleaned up a lot for 1.5.4, see attached. May I propose a small patch for improved clarity? Sure, thanks. Abdel.

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Pavel Sanda wrote: Deleting and re-extracting the source tree did the trick. So the steps to cure the problem turned out to be: Good to hear. Steve, if you think that README INSTALL files put you somewhere in the wrong direction, the best you can do is to send us the corrections.

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
G. Milde wrote: On 21.02.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Actually the INSTALL file has been cleaned up a lot for 1.5.4, see attached. May I propose a small patch for improved clarity? Sure, thanks. Abdel.

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Pavel Sanda wrote: Deleting and re-extracting the source tree did the trick. So the steps to cure the problem turned out to be: Good to hear. Steve, if you think that README & INSTALL files put you somewhere in the wrong direction, the best you can do is to send us the corrections.

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
G. Milde wrote: On 21.02.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Actually the INSTALL file has been cleaned up a lot for 1.5.4, see attached. May I propose a small patch for improved clarity? Sure, thanks. Abdel.

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
deedee wrote: The only other issue I'm aware of I believe someone already mentioned. You have to make sure that the devel- files are the same as the regular ones; just as some software that requires kernel-headers to install from source, the kernel-headers have to the same as the current

New nice article about LyX among other things

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/2008/02/applications-are-open-source-too.html Could someone put it in the wiki/webpage? Abdel.

Re: Mathed completion popup

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Martin Görg wrote: Hello Hellmut Weber, on 2/20/2008 you wrote: Great form of documentation for the work you have done, my compliments A small progress report of the patch: I made it very generic now and am on the way to implement completion for the text mode as well. You can see a tiny

Re: Mathed completion popup

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
James Sutherland wrote: Does this also work for normal text editing mode? I have longed for a emacs-style word completing utility in LyX! It appears so yes :-) Abdel. Am 19.02.2008 um 21:38 schrieb Stefan Schimanski: ... and am on the way to implement completion for the text mode as well.

Re: New nice article about LyX among other things

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: David Hewitt wrote: http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/2008/02/applications-are-open-source-too.html Could someone put it in the wiki/webpage? Gladly... do you have a preference for where it should go? I just browsed around and didn't see an obvious location

Re: New nice article about LyX among other things

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
David Hewitt wrote: http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/2008/02/applications-are-open-source-too.html Could someone put it in the wiki/webpage? Gladly... do you have a preference for where it should go? I just browsed around and didn't see an obvious location. It actually seems like it

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: In hindsight, I'm not going to disagree with you, always assuming it would have taken extra work to leave xforms in. My concern was more with the choice of 4.1.5 as a minimum rather than earlier 4.x (I actually got it working with 4.1.4). I've promised to keep out of this

Re: Version Control

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
James Mansion wrote: Is it possible to get LyX to use my Subversion system for version control? If you mean the old RCS support then no (which we should probably ditch). But the LyX format is perfectly diff-able as it is a plain text format and that is all you need IMHO. I never had a merge

Re: Grapics not shown in Lyx

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Mario Braun wrote: Hello everybody, i´ve recently upgraded to Lyx Version 1.5.3 on Mac OS X 10.5.2 For some reason Lyx doesn´t show the graphics I included in my documents. When I run Lyx to create a pdf file they appear in the pdf-document though. what did I do wrong? Verify that

Re: Version Control

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
James Mansion wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: If you mean the old RCS support then no (which we should probably ditch). It was actually - I was hoping there was a hidden configuration option somewhere. No, unfortunately. Should be easy to implement if you know a bit of C++ ;-) Abdel.

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
deedee wrote: The only other issue I'm aware of I believe someone already mentioned. You have to make sure that the devel- files are the same as the regular ones; just as some software that requires kernel-headers to install from source, the kernel-headers have to the same as the current

New nice article about LyX among other things

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/2008/02/applications-are-open-source-too.html Could someone put it in the wiki/webpage? Abdel.

Re: Mathed completion popup

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Martin Görg wrote: Hello Hellmut Weber, on 2/20/2008 you wrote: Great form of documentation for the work you have done, my compliments A small progress report of the patch: I made it very generic now and am on the way to implement completion for the text mode as well. You can see a tiny

Re: Mathed completion popup

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
James Sutherland wrote: Does this also work for normal text editing mode? I have longed for a emacs-style word completing utility in LyX! It appears so yes :-) Abdel. Am 19.02.2008 um 21:38 schrieb Stefan Schimanski: ... and am on the way to implement completion for the text mode as well.

Re: New nice article about LyX among other things

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: David Hewitt wrote: http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/2008/02/applications-are-open-source-too.html Could someone put it in the wiki/webpage? Gladly... do you have a preference for where it should go? I just browsed around and didn't see an obvious location

Re: New nice article about LyX among other things

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
David Hewitt wrote: http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/2008/02/applications-are-open-source-too.html Could someone put it in the wiki/webpage? Gladly... do you have a preference for where it should go? I just browsed around and didn't see an obvious location. It actually seems like it

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: In hindsight, I'm not going to disagree with you, always assuming it would have taken extra work to leave xforms in. My concern was more with the choice of 4.1.5 as a minimum rather than earlier 4.x (I actually got it working with 4.1.4). I've promised to keep out of this

Re: Version Control

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
James Mansion wrote: Is it possible to get LyX to use my Subversion system for version control? If you mean the old RCS support then no (which we should probably ditch). But the LyX format is perfectly diff-able as it is a plain text format and that is all you need IMHO. I never had a merge

Re: Grapics not shown in Lyx

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Mario Braun wrote: Hello everybody, i´ve recently upgraded to Lyx Version 1.5.3 on Mac OS X 10.5.2 For some reason Lyx doesn´t show the graphics I included in my documents. When I run Lyx to create a pdf file they appear in the pdf-document though. what did I do wrong? Verify that

Re: Version Control

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
James Mansion wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: If you mean the old RCS support then no (which we should probably ditch). It was actually - I was hoping there was a hidden configuration option somewhere. No, unfortunately. Should be easy to implement if you know a bit of C++ ;-) Abdel.

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
deedee wrote: The only other issue I'm aware of I believe someone already mentioned. You have to make sure that the devel- files are the same as the regular ones; just as some software that requires kernel-headers to install from source, the kernel-headers have to the same as the current

New nice article about LyX among other things

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/2008/02/applications-are-open-source-too.html Could someone put it in the wiki/webpage? Abdel.

Re: Mathed completion popup

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Martin Görg wrote: Hello Hellmut Weber, on 2/20/2008 you wrote: Great form of documentation for the work you have done, my compliments A small progress report of the patch: I made it very generic now and am on the way to implement completion for the text mode as well. You can see a tiny

Re: Mathed completion popup

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
James Sutherland wrote: Does this also work for normal text editing mode? I have longed for a emacs-style word completing utility in LyX! It appears so yes :-) Abdel. Am 19.02.2008 um 21:38 schrieb Stefan Schimanski: > ... and am on the way to implement completion for the text mode as

Re: New nice article about LyX among other things

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: David Hewitt wrote: http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/2008/02/applications-are-open-source-too.html Could someone put it in the wiki/webpage? Gladly... do you have a preference for where it should go? I just browsed around and didn't see an obvious location

Re: New nice article about LyX among other things

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
David Hewitt wrote: http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/2008/02/applications-are-open-source-too.html Could someone put it in the wiki/webpage? Gladly... do you have a preference for where it should go? I just browsed around and didn't see an obvious location. It actually seems like it

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: In hindsight, I'm not going to disagree with you, always assuming it would have taken extra work to leave xforms in. My concern was more with the choice of 4.1.5 as a minimum rather than earlier 4.x (I actually got it working with 4.1.4). I've promised to keep out of this

Re: Version Control

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
James Mansion wrote: Is it possible to get LyX to use my Subversion system for version control? If you mean the old RCS support then no (which we should probably ditch). But the LyX format is perfectly diff-able as it is a plain text format and that is all you need IMHO. I never had a merge

Re: Grapics not shown in Lyx

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Mario Braun wrote: Hello everybody, i´ve recently upgraded to Lyx Version 1.5.3 on Mac OS X 10.5.2 For some reason Lyx doesn´t show the graphics I included in my documents. When I run Lyx to create a pdf file they appear in the pdf-document though. what did I do wrong? Verify that

Re: Version Control

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
James Mansion wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: If you mean the old RCS support then no (which we should probably ditch). It was actually - I was hoping there was a hidden configuration option somewhere. No, unfortunately. Should be easy to implement if you know a bit of C++ ;-) Abdel.

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Feb 19, 2008 4:07 PM, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JOHN CULLETON wrote: on recommending Lyx to TEX newbies. If someone can cite a version of Lyx that runs without tears on the latest stable version of Slack (12) then I may give it a try again

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No offense intended Steve but you are obviously confused with version numbers etc. I even suspect that you didn't even fully read the README and INSTALL that come with the source. As an end-user, either you wait for your

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the case of Steve, his problem was clearly something he could have resolved by himself without questioning our choice of development tool. Well, anybody can at least question our choices. This does not mean that we

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2008 02:01, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Then there's the fact that some of us have dialup, and some in rural areas are years from getting broadband. The just upgrade your qt suggestion could be a day's downloading over a phone line

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: Yeah, that's the way to get LyX users -- tell em if they're not willing to upgrade the very vitals of their OS so that the developers can use the latest and greatest Qt instead of providing compatibility with a couple year old version (Qt 4 came out summer 2005, but Qt 4.2 is

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