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
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

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
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

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 fo

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 t

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

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

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

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
JOHN CULLETON wrote: While in the process of trying to add things like Qt4 to my Slack 12 system I managed to mung my ability to send outgoing mail. I reinstalled on a fresh partition but I still have problems. So among other things I am giving up on Lyx. More to the point, I am giving up on

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 18 February 2008 18:01, Pavel Sanda wrote: It shouldn't be this difficult to compile LyX. It wasn't this difficult a couple years ago. actually this should be the job of your distro maintainers, not lyx. I've been hearing a lot of that type of comment lately, and

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
JOHN CULLETON wrote: While in the process of trying to add things like Qt4 to my Slack 12 system I managed to mung my ability to send outgoing mail. I reinstalled on a fresh partition but I still have problems. So among other things I am giving up on Lyx. More to the point, I am giving up on

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 18 February 2008 18:01, Pavel Sanda wrote: It shouldn't be this difficult to compile LyX. It wasn't this difficult a couple years ago. actually this should be the job of your distro maintainers, not lyx. I've been hearing a lot of that type of comment lately, and

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
JOHN CULLETON wrote: While in the process of trying to add things like Qt4 to my Slack 12 system I managed to mung my ability to send outgoing mail. I reinstalled on a fresh partition but I still have problems. So among other things I am giving up on Lyx. More to the point, I am giving up on

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 18 February 2008 18:01, Pavel Sanda wrote: It shouldn't be this difficult to compile LyX. It wasn't this difficult a couple years ago. actually this should be the job of your distro maintainers, not lyx. I've been hearing a lot of that type of comment lately, and

Re: LyX GUI as in GIMP (and a rave review)

2008-02-14 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Maximilian Wollner wrote: Also, I would like to detach the document outliner. Did you try to drag the title bar of the outliner? I know that Mac drawer are special but on Window and X11 you can easily detach it. And I would like the setup to stay as it was when I close and reopen LyX

Re: LyX GUI as in GIMP (and a rave review)

2008-02-14 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Maximilian Wollner wrote: Also, I would like to detach the document outliner. Did you try to drag the title bar of the outliner? I know that Mac drawer are special but on Window and X11 you can easily detach it. And I would like the setup to stay as it was when I close and reopen LyX

Re: LyX GUI as in GIMP (and a rave review)

2008-02-14 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Maximilian Wollner wrote: Also, I would like to detach the document outliner. Did you try to drag the title bar of the outliner? I know that Mac drawer are special but on Window and X11 you can easily detach it. And I would like the setup to stay as it was when I close and reopen LyX

Re: Memory use

2008-02-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Nicolás wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Nicolás [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When a file is closed the memory the file was using is released and when LyX is minimized, the memory used is reduced to a minimum. That's great! However, this is no longer true when LyX is running and I go into and

Re: Memory use

2008-02-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Nicolás wrote: I am working with 3 documents, 2 of which have plenty of formulae. When I open the three of them, LyX uses 40Mb of RAM. If I close them, the memory consumption reduces to about 25Mb-33Mb. When LyX has been running for a while (and several hibernations have happened), LyX

Re: Memory use

2008-02-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Nicolás wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Nicolás [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When a file is closed the memory the file was using is released and when LyX is minimized, the memory used is reduced to a minimum. That's great! However, this is no longer true when LyX is running and I go into and

Re: Memory use

2008-02-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Nicolás wrote: I am working with 3 documents, 2 of which have plenty of formulae. When I open the three of them, LyX uses 40Mb of RAM. If I close them, the memory consumption reduces to about 25Mb-33Mb. When LyX has been running for a while (and several hibernations have happened), LyX

Re: Memory use

2008-02-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Nicolás wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Nicolás <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: When a file is closed the memory the file was using is released and when LyX is minimized, the memory used is reduced to a minimum. That's great! However, this is no longer true when LyX is running and I go into

Re: Memory use

2008-02-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Nicolás wrote: I am working with 3 documents, 2 of which have plenty of formulae. When I open the three of them, LyX uses 40Mb of RAM. If I close them, the memory consumption reduces to about 25Mb-33Mb. When LyX has been running for a while (and several hibernations have happened), LyX

Re: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters

2008-02-05 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
rgheck wrote: \bind C-apostrophe accent-acute \bind C-S-quotedbl accent-umlaut Note that, to get these to work, you may also need to change some earlier bindings. In cua.bind, I had to change: \bind ~S-M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind ~S-C-quotedblself-insert \ to \bind

Re: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters

2008-02-05 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
rgheck wrote: \bind C-apostrophe accent-acute \bind C-S-quotedbl accent-umlaut Note that, to get these to work, you may also need to change some earlier bindings. In cua.bind, I had to change: \bind ~S-M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind ~S-C-quotedblself-insert \ to \bind

Re: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters

2008-02-05 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
rgheck wrote: \bind "C-apostrophe" "accent-acute" \bind "C-S-quotedbl" "accent-umlaut" Note that, to get these to work, you may also need to change some earlier bindings. In cua.bind, I had to change: \bind "~S-M-quotedbl""quote-insert single" \bind "~S-C-quotedbl"

Re: Promote/demote entire branches.

2008-01-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
shiknar wrote: How do I promote/demote an entire branch? Unfortunately this is not implemented. I have this in my todo list though... maybe I'll implement it for 1.6. But I don't think I'll have time; this is no difficult stuff if someone wants to volunteer... On the GUI side, I am thinking

Re: Promote/demote entire branches.

2008-01-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
shiknar wrote: How do I promote/demote an entire branch? Unfortunately this is not implemented. I have this in my todo list though... maybe I'll implement it for 1.6. But I don't think I'll have time; this is no difficult stuff if someone wants to volunteer... On the GUI side, I am thinking

Re: Promote/demote entire branches.

2008-01-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
shiknar wrote: How do I promote/demote an entire branch? Unfortunately this is not implemented. I have this in my todo list though... maybe I'll implement it for 1.6. But I don't think I'll have time; this is no difficult stuff if someone wants to volunteer... On the GUI side, I am thinking

Re: LyX install on Fedora

2008-01-18 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Milen Ivanov wrote: Dear Abdel, I'd be interested in a more detailed comparison about the speed. It is mostly my general feeling, but I have collected some data for a rather arbitrary example. 1/ I run Linux F8 on laptop with Intel 1.7GHz and XP on Intel 1GHz (both 32bit, of course). Now,

Re: LyX install on Fedora

2008-01-18 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Milen Ivanov wrote: Dear Abdel, I'd be interested in a more detailed comparison about the speed. It is mostly my general feeling, but I have collected some data for a rather arbitrary example. 1/ I run Linux F8 on laptop with Intel 1.7GHz and XP on Intel 1GHz (both 32bit, of course). Now,

Re: LyX install on Fedora

2008-01-18 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Milen Ivanov wrote: Dear Abdel, I'd be interested in a more detailed comparison about the speed. It is mostly my general feeling, but I have collected some data for a rather arbitrary example. 1/ I run Linux F8 on laptop with Intel 1.7GHz and XP on Intel 1GHz (both 32bit, of course). Now,

Re: keyboard shortcuts

2008-01-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Tobias Krause wrote: This is weird and something I cannot reproduce under Windows. Maybe it is a bug of Qt under X11? It does not seem to be a X11 bug: I use windows (Vista) and LyX 1.5.3 Really? Then it might be a bug in Qt under Vista as I use XP, or maybe it is a bug of Vista :-)

Re: Alt-space on Windows?

2008-01-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: rgheck wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should Alt-space work on windows to access the drowp down list that lets you select paragraph style? On Linux, it's Alt-P, space. Also in Windows. In Windows, alt-space opens

Re: keyboard shortcuts

2008-01-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Tobias Krause wrote: This is weird and something I cannot reproduce under Windows. Maybe it is a bug of Qt under X11? It does not seem to be a X11 bug: I use windows (Vista) and LyX 1.5.3 Really? Then it might be a bug in Qt under Vista as I

Re: Feature Request - new file command from insert file dialog box.

2008-01-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Ryan Cross wrote: Yes, I meant in the Child Document Dialog (though there are other dialogs for inserting files that might benefit from a similar function). I have created this issue - http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4475please let me know if it is insufficient. It is, thanks. I've

Re: keyboard shortcuts

2008-01-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Tobias Krause wrote: This is weird and something I cannot reproduce under Windows. Maybe it is a bug of Qt under X11? It does not seem to be a X11 bug: I use windows (Vista) and LyX 1.5.3 Really? Then it might be a bug in Qt under Vista as I use XP, or maybe it is a bug of Vista :-)

Re: Alt-space on Windows?

2008-01-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: rgheck wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should Alt-space work on windows to access the drowp down list that lets you select paragraph style? On Linux, it's Alt-P, space. Also in Windows. In Windows, alt-space opens

Re: keyboard shortcuts

2008-01-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Tobias Krause wrote: This is weird and something I cannot reproduce under Windows. Maybe it is a bug of Qt under X11? It does not seem to be a X11 bug: I use windows (Vista) and LyX 1.5.3 Really? Then it might be a bug in Qt under Vista as I

Re: Feature Request - new file command from insert file dialog box.

2008-01-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Ryan Cross wrote: Yes, I meant in the Child Document Dialog (though there are other dialogs for inserting files that might benefit from a similar function). I have created this issue - http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4475please let me know if it is insufficient. It is, thanks. I've

Re: keyboard shortcuts

2008-01-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Tobias Krause wrote: This is weird and something I cannot reproduce under Windows. Maybe it is a bug of Qt under X11? It does not seem to be a X11 bug: I use windows (Vista) and LyX 1.5.3 Really? Then it might be a bug in Qt under Vista as I use XP, or maybe it is a bug of Vista :-)

Re: Alt-space on Windows?

2008-01-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: rgheck wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Should Alt-space work on windows to access the drowp down list that lets > you select paragraph style? > On Linux, it's Alt-P, space. Also in Windows. In Windows, alt-space

Re: keyboard shortcuts

2008-01-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Tobias Krause wrote: This is weird and something I cannot reproduce under Windows. Maybe it is a bug of Qt under X11? It does not seem to be a X11 bug: I use windows (Vista) and LyX 1.5.3 Really? Then it might be a bug in Qt under Vista as I

Re: Feature Request - new file command from insert file dialog box.

2008-01-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Ryan Cross wrote: Yes, I meant in the Child Document Dialog (though there are other dialogs for inserting files that might benefit from a similar function). I have created this issue - http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4475please let me know if it is insufficient. It is, thanks. I've

Re: keyboard shortcuts

2008-01-09 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ! Since 1.5 version (if i remember well) I've a lot of problem with the keyboard shortcuts. I mean, I use a lot of shortcut for math symbol, and when I type too quickly, I get a menu (as example, alt-m-f will give alt-f) You should try 'Alt-m f', i.e. make sure to

Re: keyboard shortcuts

2008-01-09 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Tobias Krause wrote: I mean, I use a lot of shortcut for math symbol, and when I type too quickly, I get a menu (as example, alt-m-f will give alt-f) I have a similar problem trying e.g. to insert a footnote via Alt-i f: * if I type Alt-i-f too fast it ends up like Alt-f * if a type

Re: Feature Request - new file command from insert file dialog box.

2008-01-09 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Ryan Cross wrote: Not sure if this would be the best place to post this, but it dawned on me today that it would be really useful if I could have an option in the insert file dialog box to create a new file, You mean in the 'Child Document' dialog right? instead of just browsing for an

Re: 1.5.3 bug? - using child documents with same class causing error

2008-01-09 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Ryan Cross wrote: HI, I decided to upgrade to 1.5.3 today (windows) and tried working with a file that has several child documents included. When trying to view the pdf (and thus opening all the child docs), I am getting an error that the child docs have a different text class than the parent

Re: keyboard shortcuts

2008-01-09 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ! Since 1.5 version (if i remember well) I've a lot of problem with the keyboard shortcuts. I mean, I use a lot of shortcut for math symbol, and when I type too quickly, I get a menu (as example, alt-m-f will give alt-f) You should try 'Alt-m f', i.e. make sure to

Re: keyboard shortcuts

2008-01-09 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Tobias Krause wrote: I mean, I use a lot of shortcut for math symbol, and when I type too quickly, I get a menu (as example, alt-m-f will give alt-f) I have a similar problem trying e.g. to insert a footnote via Alt-i f: * if I type Alt-i-f too fast it ends up like Alt-f * if a type

Re: Feature Request - new file command from insert file dialog box.

2008-01-09 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Ryan Cross wrote: Not sure if this would be the best place to post this, but it dawned on me today that it would be really useful if I could have an option in the insert file dialog box to create a new file, You mean in the 'Child Document' dialog right? instead of just browsing for an

Re: 1.5.3 bug? - using child documents with same class causing error

2008-01-09 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Ryan Cross wrote: HI, I decided to upgrade to 1.5.3 today (windows) and tried working with a file that has several child documents included. When trying to view the pdf (and thus opening all the child docs), I am getting an error that the child docs have a different text class than the parent

Re: keyboard shortcuts

2008-01-09 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ! Since 1.5 version (if i remember well) I've a lot of problem with the keyboard shortcuts. I mean, I use a lot of shortcut for math symbol, and when I type too quickly, I get a menu (as example, alt-m-f will give alt-f) You should try 'Alt-m f', i.e. make sure to

Re: keyboard shortcuts

2008-01-09 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Tobias Krause wrote: I mean, I use a lot of shortcut for math symbol, and when I type too quickly, I get a menu (as example, alt-m-f will give alt-f) I have a similar problem trying e.g. to insert a footnote via Alt-i f: * if I type Alt-i-f too fast it ends up like Alt-f * if a type

Re: Feature Request - new file command from insert file dialog box.

2008-01-09 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Ryan Cross wrote: Not sure if this would be the best place to post this, but it dawned on me today that it would be really useful if I could have an option in the insert file dialog box to create a new file, You mean in the 'Child Document' dialog right? instead of just browsing for an

Re: 1.5.3 bug? - using child documents with same class causing error

2008-01-09 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Ryan Cross wrote: HI, I decided to upgrade to 1.5.3 today (windows) and tried working with a file that has several child documents included. When trying to view the pdf (and thus opening all the child docs), I am getting an error that the child docs have a different text class than the parent

Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner

2008-01-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi all, I'm also a great fan of outlining serious texts and have also made some experiences with kdissert (being a fan of MindMaps still much longer than of any advanced text system). OTOH I'm using LyX-1.5.3 now for quite a while and am VERY content for my (restricted)

Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner

2008-01-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 31 December 2007 05:11, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: So why don't you use LyX-1.5 directly then? Or more specifically what is missing in LyX outlining facilities? He Abdel, I haven't yet used 1.5, but when I do I'm pretty sure I'll find one thing missing in its

Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner

2008-01-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi all, I'm also a great fan of outlining serious texts and have also made some experiences with kdissert (being a fan of MindMaps still much longer than of any advanced text system). OTOH I'm using LyX-1.5.3 now for quite a while and am VERY content for my (restricted)

Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner

2008-01-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 31 December 2007 05:11, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: So why don't you use LyX-1.5 directly then? Or more specifically what is missing in LyX outlining facilities? He Abdel, I haven't yet used 1.5, but when I do I'm pretty sure I'll find one thing missing in its

Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner

2008-01-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi all, I'm also a great fan of outlining serious texts and have also made some experiences with kdissert (being a fan of MindMaps still much longer than of any advanced text system). OTOH I'm using LyX-1.5.3 now for quite a while and am VERY content for my (restricted)

Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner

2008-01-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 31 December 2007 05:11, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: So why don't you use LyX-1.5 directly then? Or more specifically what is missing in LyX outlining facilities? He Abdel, I haven't yet used 1.5, but when I do I'm pretty sure I'll find one thing missing in its

Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner

2007-12-31 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, For the first time I've gone beyond book outlining in VO (VimOutliner) and am actually writing the book (via body text) in VO. What this does is eliminate the artificial demarkation between outlining and writing. It's very possible, and in fact quite likely, that

Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner

2007-12-31 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, For the first time I've gone beyond book outlining in VO (VimOutliner) and am actually writing the book (via body text) in VO. What this does is eliminate the artificial demarkation between outlining and writing. It's very possible, and in fact quite likely, that

Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner

2007-12-31 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, For the first time I've gone beyond book outlining in VO (VimOutliner) and am actually writing the book (via body text) in VO. What this does is eliminate the artificial demarkation between outlining and writing. It's very possible, and in fact quite likely, that

Re: fun poll: your linux distro

2007-12-30 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Sven Hoexter wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 11:30:17PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Hi Abdel, Ahhh! at last a (good) report about the increased speed in 1.5.3! You're very welcome. the speed problems are still a very weird problem I can hardly reproduce. Yesterday it occured

Re: fun poll: your linux distro

2007-12-30 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Sven Hoexter wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 11:30:17PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Hi Abdel, Ahhh! at last a (good) report about the increased speed in 1.5.3! You're very welcome. the speed problems are still a very weird problem I can hardly reproduce. Yesterday it occured

Re: fun poll: your linux distro

2007-12-30 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Sven Hoexter wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 11:30:17PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Hi Abdel, Ahhh! at last a (good) report about the increased speed in 1.5.3! You're very welcome. the speed problems are still a very weird problem I can hardly reproduce. Yesterday it occured

Re: fun poll: your linux distro

2007-12-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Bob Lounsbury wrote: I've personally been experimenting with all the distros I can. Currently I'm on Slackware, but qt4 failed to build so I haven't been able to get LyX on yet. I also have an iBook running Debian Etch with 1.5.3. I must say too that 1.5.3 has GREATLY increased the typing speed

Re: fun poll: your linux distro

2007-12-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Bob Lounsbury wrote: I've personally been experimenting with all the distros I can. Currently I'm on Slackware, but qt4 failed to build so I haven't been able to get LyX on yet. I also have an iBook running Debian Etch with 1.5.3. I must say too that 1.5.3 has GREATLY increased the typing speed

Re: fun poll: your linux distro

2007-12-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Bob Lounsbury wrote: I've personally been experimenting with all the distros I can. Currently I'm on Slackware, but qt4 failed to build so I haven't been able to get LyX on yet. I also have an iBook running Debian Etch with 1.5.3. I must say too that 1.5.3 has GREATLY increased the typing speed

Re: LyX on Mac OS X - installed prerequisites but still can't get output?

2007-12-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Faith Anne Scott wrote: I don't have that menu. Under Tools, all I have is Spellchecker, Count Words, and TeX Information. If that is the case then we have a bigger problem with your installation and I'm afraid I cannot help you much. I'll let the MacOS experts comment on this. Please try

Re: Slow input with cross-reference window open

2007-12-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jens Noeckel wrote: On Dec 25, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Jens Noeckel wrote: Hi, on Mac OS X 10.4 with LyX 1.5.3 (Intel), text input in the main window slows down to a crawl when editing a large document while at the same time the cross-reference window is left open. It's not noticeable with small

Re: Slow input with cross-reference window open

2007-12-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jens Noeckel wrote: On Dec 26, 2007, at 12:56 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Jens Noeckel wrote: On Dec 25, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Jens Noeckel wrote: Hi, on Mac OS X 10.4 with LyX 1.5.3 (Intel), text input in the main window slows down to a crawl when editing a large document while at the same

Re: LyX on Mac OS X - installed prerequisites but still can't get output?

2007-12-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Faith Anne Scott wrote: I don't have that menu. Under Tools, all I have is Spellchecker, Count Words, and TeX Information. If that is the case then we have a bigger problem with your installation and I'm afraid I cannot help you much. I'll let the MacOS experts comment on this. Please try

Re: Slow input with cross-reference window open

2007-12-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jens Noeckel wrote: On Dec 25, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Jens Noeckel wrote: Hi, on Mac OS X 10.4 with LyX 1.5.3 (Intel), text input in the main window slows down to a crawl when editing a large document while at the same time the cross-reference window is left open. It's not noticeable with small

Re: Slow input with cross-reference window open

2007-12-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jens Noeckel wrote: On Dec 26, 2007, at 12:56 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Jens Noeckel wrote: On Dec 25, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Jens Noeckel wrote: Hi, on Mac OS X 10.4 with LyX 1.5.3 (Intel), text input in the main window slows down to a crawl when editing a large document while at the same

Re: LyX on Mac OS X - installed prerequisites but still can't get output?

2007-12-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Faith Anne Scott wrote: I don't have that menu. Under Tools, all I have is Spellchecker, Count Words, and TeX Information. If that is the case then we have a bigger problem with your installation and I'm afraid I cannot help you much. I'll let the MacOS experts comment on this. Please try

Re: Slow input with cross-reference window open

2007-12-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jens Noeckel wrote: On Dec 25, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Jens Noeckel wrote: Hi, on Mac OS X 10.4 with LyX 1.5.3 (Intel), text input in the main window slows down to a crawl when editing a large document while at the same time the cross-reference window is left open. It's not noticeable with small

Re: Slow input with cross-reference window open

2007-12-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jens Noeckel wrote: On Dec 26, 2007, at 12:56 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Jens Noeckel wrote: On Dec 25, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Jens Noeckel wrote: Hi, on Mac OS X 10.4 with LyX 1.5.3 (Intel), text input in the main window slows down to a crawl when editing a large document while at the same

Re: LyX on Mac OS X - installed prerequisites but still can't get output?

2007-12-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Faith Anne Scott wrote: Hi all! Sorry for the dumb question, but here goes... My installation of LyX says it doesn't know how to write PDF files - what do I need to do? Try the menu Tools - Reconfigure and then restart. Abdel.

Re: LyX on Mac OS X - installed prerequisites but still can't get output?

2007-12-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Faith Anne Scott wrote: Hi all! Sorry for the dumb question, but here goes... My installation of LyX says it doesn't know how to write PDF files - what do I need to do? Try the menu Tools - Reconfigure and then restart. Abdel.

Re: LyX on Mac OS X - installed prerequisites but still can't get output?

2007-12-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Faith Anne Scott wrote: Hi all! Sorry for the dumb question, but here goes... My installation of LyX says it doesn't know how to write PDF files - what do I need to do? Try the menu "Tools -> Reconfigure" and then restart. Abdel.

Re: Some LyX 1.5.3 issues (OS-X specific?)

2007-12-22 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Daniel Lohmann wrote: Hi LyX folks, On a longer train journey I had the opportunity to actually do some work with LyX on my new Mac. While doing so, I observed a couple of issues. Some of them might be related to the fact that I am still using it in a very Windows-like way, especially with

Re: Some LyX 1.5.3 issues (OS-X specific?)

2007-12-22 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Daniel Lohmann wrote: Hi LyX folks, On a longer train journey I had the opportunity to actually do some work with LyX on my new Mac. While doing so, I observed a couple of issues. Some of them might be related to the fact that I am still using it in a very Windows-like way, especially with

Re: Some LyX 1.5.3 issues (OS-X specific?)

2007-12-22 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Daniel Lohmann wrote: Hi LyX folks, On a longer train journey I had the opportunity to actually do some work with LyX on my new Mac. While doing so, I observed a couple of issues. Some of them might be related to the fact that I am still using it in a very Windows-like way, especially with

Re: multiple views of the same buffer

2007-12-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Christopher Reeve wrote: Hi, I'm using LyX 1.52 on a mac os 10.4. On the wiki it says that with version 1.5 I should be able to have more than one view of the same buffer. http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX15#toc3 This would be very useful to me. Could anyone tell me how to do this? File

Re: multiple views of the same buffer

2007-12-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Christopher Reeve wrote: Thanks, Very clever, just maybe not that intuitive. Well, it is in line with Firefox for example. But I would personally prefer to put it in a new Window menu like in MSWord. What would you suggest? I guess it will all change again with the next big updates in 1.6.

Re: multiple views of the same buffer

2007-12-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Christopher Reeve wrote: Yes, I guess it is sort of in line with Firefox. Only with Firefox you have literally a new window where you can have a new set of tabs. What LyX is actually doing is cloning the current window, rather than creating a new one which no other software I know is able to

Re: multiple views of the same buffer

2007-12-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Christopher Reeve wrote: Hi, I'm using LyX 1.52 on a mac os 10.4. On the wiki it says that with version 1.5 I should be able to have more than one view of the same buffer. http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX15#toc3 This would be very useful to me. Could anyone tell me how to do this? File

Re: multiple views of the same buffer

2007-12-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Christopher Reeve wrote: Thanks, Very clever, just maybe not that intuitive. Well, it is in line with Firefox for example. But I would personally prefer to put it in a new Window menu like in MSWord. What would you suggest? I guess it will all change again with the next big updates in 1.6.

Re: multiple views of the same buffer

2007-12-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Christopher Reeve wrote: Yes, I guess it is sort of in line with Firefox. Only with Firefox you have literally a new window where you can have a new set of tabs. What LyX is actually doing is cloning the current window, rather than creating a new one which no other software I know is able to

Re: multiple views of the same buffer

2007-12-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Christopher Reeve wrote: Hi, I'm using LyX 1.52 on a mac os 10.4. On the wiki it says that with version 1.5 I should be able to have more than one view of the same buffer. http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX15#toc3 This would be very useful to me. Could anyone tell me how to do this? File

Re: multiple views of the same buffer

2007-12-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Christopher Reeve wrote: Thanks, Very clever, just maybe not that intuitive. Well, it is in line with Firefox for example. But I would personally prefer to put it in a new Window menu like in MSWord. What would you suggest? I guess it will all change again with the next big updates in 1.6.

Re: multiple views of the same buffer

2007-12-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Christopher Reeve wrote: Yes, I guess it is sort of in line with Firefox. Only with Firefox you have literally a new window where you can have a new set of tabs. What LyX is actually doing is cloning the current window, rather than creating a new one which no other software I know is able to

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