Re: behaviour of changebars (tracking changes)

2005-05-11 Thread John Levon
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 10:14:14AM -0700, Jane McKean wrote: Yes, it is annoying that accepting all the changes bounces you to the end of the doc, but it's something I found I can live with. It is still a bug though; if it's not filed already, it should be. regards john

Re: behaviour of changebars (tracking changes)

2005-05-11 Thread John Levon
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 10:14:14AM -0700, Jane McKean wrote: Yes, it is annoying that accepting all the changes bounces you to the end of the doc, but it's something I found I can live with. It is still a bug though; if it's not filed already, it should be. regards john

Re: behaviour of changebars (tracking changes)

2005-05-11 Thread John Levon
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 10:14:14AM -0700, Jane McKean wrote: > Yes, it is annoying that accepting all the changes bounces you to the > end of the doc, but it's something I found I can live with. It is still a bug though; if it's not filed already, it should be. regards john

Re: Asking for confirming a bug

2005-03-29 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:26:07PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: * open a new document and open an empty ERT, keeping the ERT and the document open; * open a different document and selecting something therein; * return to the first document and look at the open ERT. Please file a bug on

Re: Asking for confirming a bug

2005-03-29 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:26:07PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: * open a new document and open an empty ERT, keeping the ERT and the document open; * open a different document and selecting something therein; * return to the first document and look at the open ERT. Please file a bug on

Re: Asking for confirming a bug

2005-03-29 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:26:07PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > * open a new document and open an empty ERT, keeping the ERT and the > document open; > * open a different document and selecting something therein; > * return to the first document and look at the open ERT. Please file a bug on

Re: No Search Replace in 1.3.5?

2005-01-13 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:06:28PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: Wherever it makes sense we do use the Qt library for UI, as much as possible. Unfortunately the Qt library is very much our way or no way at all in large part... in particular truly separated MVC seems very hard to do if we

Re: No Search Replace in 1.3.5?

2005-01-13 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:06:28PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: Wherever it makes sense we do use the Qt library for UI, as much as possible. Unfortunately the Qt library is very much our way or no way at all in large part... in particular truly separated MVC seems very hard to do if we

Re: No Search & Replace in 1.3.5?

2005-01-13 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:06:28PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > Wherever it makes sense we do use the Qt library for UI, as much as > > possible. Unfortunately the Qt library is very much "our way or no way > > at all" in large part... in particular truly separated MVC seems very > > hard to

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:17:12PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I just repeat what John Levon said a few months ago. He seemd to thing that there was a lot of work to do on it (maybe for undo). At the time there was a lot of brokenness around tables, insets, undo etc. This may indeed

Re: No Search Replace in 1.3.5?

2005-01-04 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:00:50PM +0100, Charles de Miramon wrote: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.0/qtextdocument.html I just had a quick look at this. Unfortunately it's unsuitable. It is designed as a simple hand over the keys to the car and bring back my shopping interface. What we need is

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:17:12PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I just repeat what John Levon said a few months ago. He seemd to thing that there was a lot of work to do on it (maybe for undo). At the time there was a lot of brokenness around tables, insets, undo etc. This may indeed

Re: No Search Replace in 1.3.5?

2005-01-04 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:00:50PM +0100, Charles de Miramon wrote: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.0/qtextdocument.html I just had a quick look at this. Unfortunately it's unsuitable. It is designed as a simple hand over the keys to the car and bring back my shopping interface. What we need is

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

2005-01-04 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:17:12PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I just repeat what John Levon said a few months ago. He seemd to thing > that there was a lot of work to do on it (maybe for undo). At the time there was a lot of brokenness around tables, insets, undo etc. This may

Re: No Search & Replace in 1.3.5?

2005-01-04 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:00:50PM +0100, Charles de Miramon wrote: > http://doc.trolltech.com/4.0/qtextdocument.html I just had a quick look at this. Unfortunately it's unsuitable. It is designed as a simple "hand over the keys to the car and bring back my shopping" interface. What we need is

Re: Change bar patch for 1.3.5

2004-11-18 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 09:06:34AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: John A pity that there's nowhere we can put these patches and John officially release them... Huh? We have a web site and a ftp site, after all... I meant a release of LyX. regards john

Re: Change bar patch for 1.3.5

2004-11-18 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 09:06:34AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: John A pity that there's nowhere we can put these patches and John officially release them... Huh? We have a web site and a ftp site, after all... I meant a release of LyX. regards john

Re: Change bar patch for 1.3.5

2004-11-18 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 09:06:34AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > John> A pity that there's nowhere we can put these patches and > John> officially release them... > > Huh? We have a web site and a ftp site, after all... I meant a release of LyX. regards john

Re: Change bar patch for 1.3.5

2004-11-15 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:12:12AM -0800, Jane McKean wrote: in Pittsburgh. All of the compiler and debugger docs are written in LyX! So now, finally, I have the change bar patches for LyX 1.3.5. I've been Cool! Glad you found them useful. 1.3.5 version and made a couple of small bug

Re: Change bar patch for 1.3.5

2004-11-15 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:12:12AM -0800, Jane McKean wrote: in Pittsburgh. All of the compiler and debugger docs are written in LyX! So now, finally, I have the change bar patches for LyX 1.3.5. I've been Cool! Glad you found them useful. 1.3.5 version and made a couple of small bug

Re: Change bar patch for 1.3.5

2004-11-15 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:12:12AM -0800, Jane McKean wrote: > in Pittsburgh. All of the compiler and debugger docs are written in LyX! > > So now, finally, I have the change bar patches for LyX 1.3.5. I've been Cool! Glad you found them useful. > 1.3.5 version and made a couple of small bug

Re: /dev/null

2004-09-18 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 03:05:43PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: During the configure step of the instalation of lyx, the scripts deleted my /dev/null. How can I reconstruct it? Somebody could help-me? How do you know it was caused by the lyx configuration? Can you show us how it

Re: /dev/null

2004-09-18 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 03:05:43PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: During the configure step of the instalation of lyx, the scripts deleted my /dev/null. How can I reconstruct it? Somebody could help-me? How do you know it was caused by the lyx configuration? Can you show us how it

Re: /dev/null

2004-09-18 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 03:05:43PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > > During the configure step of the instalation of lyx, the scripts > > > deleted my /dev/null. How can I reconstruct it? Somebody could > > > help-me? > > How do you know it was caused by the lyx configuration? > > Can you show

Re: [lyx-users] in the subject line

2004-08-23 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:55:26PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: I think it would be helpful (for identifying and managing messages) to have the label [lyx-users] automatically inserted in the subject line of the messages of this list, similarly to what happens with other mailing lists. Do you

Re: [lyx-users] in the subject line

2004-08-23 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:55:26PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: I think it would be helpful (for identifying and managing messages) to have the label [lyx-users] automatically inserted in the subject line of the messages of this list, similarly to what happens with other mailing lists. Do you

Re: [lyx-users] in the subject line

2004-08-23 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:55:26PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > I think it would be helpful (for identifying and managing messages) to > have the label "[lyx-users]" automatically inserted in the subject line > of the messages of this list, similarly to what happens with other > mailing lists.

Re: selection bug in lyx 1.3.4, kicker

2004-08-18 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 05:29:29PM +0200, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: I was am not certain if this has been noticed by others, but if I select text in lyx-1.3.4 (qt) and select another desktop in kpager, kicker becomes unresponsive. I can use the ctrl-tab and tab to move between the different

Re: selection bug in lyx 1.3.4, kicker

2004-08-18 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 05:29:29PM +0200, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: I was am not certain if this has been noticed by others, but if I select text in lyx-1.3.4 (qt) and select another desktop in kpager, kicker becomes unresponsive. I can use the ctrl-tab and tab to move between the different

Re: selection bug in lyx 1.3.4, kicker

2004-08-18 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 05:29:29PM +0200, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: > I was am not certain if this has been noticed by others, but if I select text > in lyx-1.3.4 (qt) and select another desktop in kpager, kicker becomes > unresponsive. I can use the ctrl-tab and tab to move between the

Re: LyXFont::setLyXShape: Unknown shape `normal'

2004-07-15 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 12:42:09AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Err, things in the stable 1.3.x branch are supposed to be zorking all the time... Freudian slip perchance? john

Re: LyXFont::setLyXShape: Unknown shape `normal'

2004-07-15 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 12:42:09AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Err, things in the stable 1.3.x branch are supposed to be zorking all the time... Freudian slip perchance? john

Re: LyXFont::setLyXShape: Unknown shape `normal'

2004-07-15 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 12:42:09AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Err, things in the stable 1.3.x branch are supposed to be zorking all > the time... Freudian slip perchance? john

Re: Password for editing pages on the lyx wiki

2004-06-19 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 12:04:06PM +0200, Roland Schmitz wrote: using a static password, which is posted in a mailinglist, isn't very secure. It doesn't need to be secure, it needs to foil the automated spamming scripts the intruders are using. john

Re: Password for editing pages on the lyx wiki

2004-06-19 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 12:04:06PM +0200, Roland Schmitz wrote: using a static password, which is posted in a mailinglist, isn't very secure. It doesn't need to be secure, it needs to foil the automated spamming scripts the intruders are using. john

Re: Password for editing pages on the lyx wiki

2004-06-19 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 12:04:06PM +0200, Roland Schmitz wrote: > using a static password, which is posted in a mailinglist, isn't very secure. It doesn't need to be secure, it needs to foil the automated spamming scripts the intruders are using. john

Re: buffer-export bindings do not work.

2004-05-06 Thread John Levon
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 06:29:04PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: F9 and S-F9 etc work well but C-F9 etc do not work. There is no response for C-F9, F10 and F11. Yeah, weird isn't it? No idea what the problem is. john

Re: buffer-export bindings do not work.

2004-05-06 Thread John Levon
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 06:29:04PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: F9 and S-F9 etc work well but C-F9 etc do not work. There is no response for C-F9, F10 and F11. Yeah, weird isn't it? No idea what the problem is. john

Re: buffer-export bindings do not work.

2004-05-06 Thread John Levon
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 06:29:04PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > F9 and S-F9 etc work well but C-F9 etc do not work. There is no response > for C-F9, F10 and F11. Yeah, weird isn't it? No idea what the problem is. john

Re: ASCII considered obscure

2004-04-25 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 10:25:26PM +0200, Reuben Thomas wrote: First, in most programs, Text is a file type listed on the save dialog, not under Export, which tends to be reserved for non-editable formats such as PDF. This is certainly the case in most word processors. Hence, she was confused

Re: ASCII considered obscure

2004-04-25 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 10:25:26PM +0200, Reuben Thomas wrote: First, in most programs, Text is a file type listed on the save dialog, not under Export, which tends to be reserved for non-editable formats such as PDF. This is certainly the case in most word processors. Hence, she was confused

Re: "ASCII" considered obscure

2004-04-25 Thread John Levon
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 10:25:26PM +0200, Reuben Thomas wrote: > First, in most programs, "Text" is a file type listed on the save dialog, > not under "Export", which tends to be reserved for non-editable formats > such as PDF. This is certainly the case in most word processors. Hence, > she was

Re: Problem with spellchecker

2004-04-23 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 06:29:19PM +, Les Denham wrote: This is not just useful for spellchecking: it makes the text within the ERT visible as normal text in the Lyx window. I found you could do this by trial and error -- is it documented anywhere? I don't know. Read through the lyx

Re: Problem with spellchecker

2004-04-23 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 06:29:19PM +, Les Denham wrote: This is not just useful for spellchecking: it makes the text within the ERT visible as normal text in the Lyx window. I found you could do this by trial and error -- is it documented anywhere? I don't know. Read through the lyx

Re: Problem with spellchecker

2004-04-23 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 06:29:19PM +, Les Denham wrote: > This is not just useful for spellchecking: it makes the text within the ERT > visible as normal text in the Lyx window. I found you could do this by trial > and error -- is it documented anywhere? I don't know. Read through the lyx

Re: lyx-1.3.4 rpm

2004-02-19 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 04:23:04PM -0500, Yu-Xi Lim wrote: I've the src and bin rpm's up at http://128.61.49.129/lyx/, compiled for my system, which is Fedora Core 1. Hadn't really tested them, but the bin works fine on my system. Guys, if you've made a package, please ftp into ftp.lyx.org

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.4 is released

2004-02-19 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 12:34:22PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Public release of LyX version 1.3.4 === Can someone update freshmeat ? I'm a bit busy thanks john

Re: lyx-1.3.4 rpm

2004-02-19 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 04:23:04PM -0500, Yu-Xi Lim wrote: I've the src and bin rpm's up at http://128.61.49.129/lyx/, compiled for my system, which is Fedora Core 1. Hadn't really tested them, but the bin works fine on my system. Guys, if you've made a package, please ftp into ftp.lyx.org

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.4 is released

2004-02-19 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 12:34:22PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Public release of LyX version 1.3.4 === Can someone update freshmeat ? I'm a bit busy thanks john

Re: lyx-1.3.4 rpm

2004-02-19 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 04:23:04PM -0500, Yu-Xi Lim wrote: > I've the src and bin rpm's up at http://128.61.49.129/lyx/, compiled for > my system, which is Fedora Core 1. Hadn't really tested them, but the > bin works fine on my system. Guys, if you've made a package, please ftp into

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.4 is released

2004-02-19 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 12:34:22PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Public release of LyX version 1.3.4 > === > Can someone update freshmeat ? I'm a bit busy thanks john

Re: suitability

2004-02-05 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 05:42:25PM +0100, Richard O'Regan wrote: might be more practical than the programs I have mentioned. If so, where can I get some clear one-two-three explanations of how a complete beginner would go about installing and using Lyx? I find that

Re: suitability

2004-02-05 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 05:42:25PM +0100, Richard O'Regan wrote: might be more practical than the programs I have mentioned. If so, where can I get some clear one-two-three explanations of how a complete beginner would go about installing and using Lyx? I find that

Re: suitability

2004-02-05 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 05:42:25PM +0100, Richard O'Regan wrote: > might be more practical than the programs I have mentioned. > If so, where can I get some clear one-two-three explanations of how a > complete beginner would go about installing and using Lyx? I find that

Re: when is the 1.4 release due?

2004-01-15 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 02:41:42PM -0800, christoff pale wrote: When is the 1.4 release date? 2005 probably. regards john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.

Re: when is the 1.4 release due?

2004-01-15 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 02:41:42PM -0800, christoff pale wrote: When is the 1.4 release date? 2005 probably. regards john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.

Re: when is the 1.4 release due?

2004-01-15 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 02:41:42PM -0800, christoff pale wrote: > When is the 1.4 release date? 2005 probably. regards john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.

Re: pre equivalent?

2003-12-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 04:42:09PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: What about the environment 'LyX Code' ? this should be deleted in LyX, it is misleading, because no real verbatim, no real listing, no real parbox, no real alltt. Only lines of typewriter format, which doesn't allow linebreaks.

Re: pre equivalent?

2003-12-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 04:42:09PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: What about the environment 'LyX Code' ? this should be deleted in LyX, it is misleading, because no real verbatim, no real listing, no real parbox, no real alltt. Only lines of typewriter format, which doesn't allow linebreaks.

Re: equivalent?

2003-12-18 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 04:42:09PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: > >What about the environment 'LyX Code' ? > > this should be deleted in LyX, it is misleading, > because no real verbatim, no real listing, no > real parbox, no real alltt. Only lines of typewriter > format, which doesn't allow

Re: again, the C-M C-M \alpha - compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:55:55AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: How should the warning message look like? I don't think a full blown message box is in order, It is not a very bad idea. A big message box will be intrusive (and scary) but users will learn very quickly how to avoid it. No they

Re: again, the C-M C-M \alpha - compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:55:55AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: How should the warning message look like? I don't think a full blown message box is in order, It is not a very bad idea. A big message box will be intrusive (and scary) but users will learn very quickly how to avoid it. No they

Re: again, the C-M C-M \alpha -> compile error problem.

2003-12-11 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:55:55AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: > > How should the warning message look like? I don't think a full blown > > message box is in order, > > It is not a very bad idea. A big message box will be intrusive (and > scary) but users will learn very quickly how to avoid it. No

Re: Format=Document=Page size not working

2003-12-03 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 07:31:45AM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: we were talking about page size and not page margin. Oops, sorry john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.

Re: Format=Document=Page size not working

2003-12-03 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 07:31:45AM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: we were talking about page size and not page margin. Oops, sorry john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.

Re: Format=>Document=>Page size not working

2003-12-03 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 07:31:45AM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: > we were talking about page size and not page margin. Oops, sorry john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.

Re: Format=Document=Page size not working

2003-12-02 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:53:49PM +0100, Herbert Vo? wrote: Marko wrote: when trying to set the page size of a document to a custom size I notized that this does not work in Lyx 1.3.2 (QT frontend). Any custom size seems to be completely ignored! Attached are two small examples: test1

Re: Format=Document=Page size not working

2003-12-02 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:53:49PM +0100, Herbert Vo? wrote: Marko wrote: when trying to set the page size of a document to a custom size I notized that this does not work in Lyx 1.3.2 (QT frontend). Any custom size seems to be completely ignored! Attached are two small examples: test1

Re: Format=>Document=>Page size not working

2003-12-02 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:53:49PM +0100, Herbert Vo? wrote: > Marko wrote: > > >when trying to set the page size of a document to a custom size I notized > >that this does not work in Lyx 1.3.2 (QT frontend). Any custom size seems > >to be completely ignored! > >Attached are two small

Re: indexing a book

2003-11-27 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 07:05:59AM -0800, Ed Sawicki wrote: I love LyX but I dislike the way an index is created. The indexed words are turned into boxes on the screen that I find annoying. I'd also like a bit more automation to make indexing easier. I'm wondering whether I'm overlooking a

Re: indexing a book

2003-11-27 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 12:04:48PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: What effort would be required to display an index box with the marked word/phrase as a lable, similar to the way ERT is displayed? In my book I've Not much effort regards john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by

Re: indexing a book

2003-11-27 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 07:05:59AM -0800, Ed Sawicki wrote: I love LyX but I dislike the way an index is created. The indexed words are turned into boxes on the screen that I find annoying. I'd also like a bit more automation to make indexing easier. I'm wondering whether I'm overlooking a

Re: indexing a book

2003-11-27 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 12:04:48PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: What effort would be required to display an index box with the marked word/phrase as a lable, similar to the way ERT is displayed? In my book I've Not much effort regards john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by

Re: indexing a book

2003-11-27 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 07:05:59AM -0800, Ed Sawicki wrote: > I love LyX but I dislike the way an index is created. > The indexed words are turned into boxes on the screen that > I find annoying. I'd also like a bit more automation to make > indexing easier. I'm wondering whether I'm overlooking

Re: indexing a book

2003-11-27 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 12:04:48PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > What effort would be required to display an index box with the marked > word/phrase as a lable, similar to the way ERT is displayed? In my book I've Not much effort regards john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice

Re: Newbie's question: what is the input box at the bottom of lyx

2003-11-19 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:47:01PM -0500, Wei Zhou wrote: Could any one tell me what is the input box at the bottom used for? If I try to type something, it says unknown function. It's for entering commands, for example lyx-quit. It's not particulalrly useful most of the time regards john

Re: Newbie's question: what is the input box at the bottom of lyx

2003-11-19 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:47:01PM -0500, Wei Zhou wrote: Could any one tell me what is the input box at the bottom used for? If I try to type something, it says unknown function. It's for entering commands, for example lyx-quit. It's not particulalrly useful most of the time regards john

Re: Newbie's question: what is the input box at the bottom of lyx

2003-11-19 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:47:01PM -0500, Wei Zhou wrote: > Could any one tell me what is the input box at the bottom used for? > > If I try to type something, it says unknown function. It's for entering commands, for example "lyx-quit". It's not particulalrly useful most of the time regards

Re: Installation directory

2003-11-13 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:05:06AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: I seem to have version 1.3.3 installed in both /usr and /usr/local. When I locate *.layout I find the same files -- same file size, too -- in both /usr/share/lyx and /usr/local/share/lyx. I believe that /usr/local/ is where it

Re: Installation directory

2003-11-13 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:05:06AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: I seem to have version 1.3.3 installed in both /usr and /usr/local. When I locate *.layout I find the same files -- same file size, too -- in both /usr/share/lyx and /usr/local/share/lyx. I believe that /usr/local/ is where it

Re: Installation directory

2003-11-13 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:05:06AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > I seem to have version 1.3.3 installed in both /usr and /usr/local. When I > locate *.layout I find the same files -- same file size, too -- in both > /usr/share/lyx and /usr/local/share/lyx. I believe that /usr/local/ is where >

Re: LyX-1.3.3-qt on Fedora Core 1

2003-11-08 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 01:21:55PM -0500, David Utidjian wrote: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.3/lyx-1.3.3-1_qt.src.rpm package and did a: rpmbuild --rebuild lyx-1.3.3-1_qt.src.rpm Could you upload the rebuilt RPMs to ftp.lyx.org (dir incoming/) ? regards john -- Khendon's Law: If the

Re: LyX-1.3.3-qt on Fedora Core 1

2003-11-08 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 01:21:55PM -0500, David Utidjian wrote: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.3/lyx-1.3.3-1_qt.src.rpm package and did a: rpmbuild --rebuild lyx-1.3.3-1_qt.src.rpm Could you upload the rebuilt RPMs to ftp.lyx.org (dir incoming/) ? regards john -- Khendon's Law: If the

Re: LyX-1.3.3-qt on Fedora Core 1

2003-11-08 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 01:21:55PM -0500, David Utidjian wrote: > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.3/lyx-1.3.3-1_qt.src.rpm > package and did a: > > rpmbuild --rebuild lyx-1.3.3-1_qt.src.rpm Could you upload the rebuilt RPMs to ftp.lyx.org (dir incoming/) ? regards john -- Khendon's Law: If

Re: scrolling (three questions)

2003-10-29 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 08:31:20PM -0500, Ronald Florence wrote: LyX users have -- workarounds. Why can't the scrolling be fixed? It would be very useful to be able to mark large blocks of text with the mouse. It could be fixed. It just needs somebody to do it. john -- Khendon's Law: If

Re: scrolling (three questions)

2003-10-29 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 08:31:20PM -0500, Ronald Florence wrote: LyX users have -- workarounds. Why can't the scrolling be fixed? It would be very useful to be able to mark large blocks of text with the mouse. It could be fixed. It just needs somebody to do it. john -- Khendon's Law: If

Re: scrolling (three questions)

2003-10-29 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 08:31:20PM -0500, Ronald Florence wrote: > LyX users have -- workarounds. Why can't the scrolling be fixed? It > would be very useful to be able to mark large blocks of text with the > mouse. It could be fixed. It just needs somebody to do it. john -- Khendon's Law:

Re: Lyx for Win32, troubleshooting, Results

2003-10-22 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 02:32:46AM +0200, Uwe St?hr wrote: QT 2.3 was the only version released with a free licence. Of course, if you and other Win32 users were to chip in and buy LyX a commercial Win32 Qt licence... Isn't the LyX founder Matthias Ettrich able to underwrite a QT3

Re: Lyx for Win32, troubleshooting, Results

2003-10-22 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:16:33PM -0700, Henry Pfister wrote: Could you explain this to me? Right now, Lyx is compatible with the Qt toolkit for unix (which is under the GPL). What prevents a single Lyx developer from buying the single user windows Qt toolkit from Trolltech for $1500, and

Re: Lyx for Win32, troubleshooting, Results

2003-10-22 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 02:32:46AM +0200, Uwe St?hr wrote: QT 2.3 was the only version released with a free licence. Of course, if you and other Win32 users were to chip in and buy LyX a commercial Win32 Qt licence... Isn't the LyX founder Matthias Ettrich able to underwrite a QT3

Re: Lyx for Win32, troubleshooting, Results

2003-10-22 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:16:33PM -0700, Henry Pfister wrote: Could you explain this to me? Right now, Lyx is compatible with the Qt toolkit for unix (which is under the GPL). What prevents a single Lyx developer from buying the single user windows Qt toolkit from Trolltech for $1500, and

Re: Lyx for Win32, troubleshooting, Results

2003-10-22 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 02:32:46AM +0200, Uwe St?hr wrote: > > QT 2.3 was the only version released with a free licence. Of course, > > if you and other Win32 users were to chip in and buy LyX a commercial > > Win32 Qt licence... > > Isn't the LyX founder Matthias Ettrich able to underwrite a

Re: Lyx for Win32, troubleshooting, Results

2003-10-22 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:16:33PM -0700, Henry Pfister wrote: > Could you explain this to me? Right now, Lyx is compatible with the > Qt toolkit for unix (which is under the GPL). What prevents a single > Lyx developer from buying the single user windows Qt toolkit from > Trolltech for $1500,

Re: Pasting Russian into Macintosh LyX

2003-10-21 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:35:56PM +0400, Peter Ringwood wrote: I am a little new to the game, but is it usual for someone to put things as strongly as 'refusing' to fix? 'Haven't got the time' or 'the issue is considered low priority at the current stage' I understand, but 'refuse to fix'

Re: Pasting Russian into Macintosh LyX

2003-10-21 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:35:56PM +0400, Peter Ringwood wrote: I am a little new to the game, but is it usual for someone to put things as strongly as 'refusing' to fix? 'Haven't got the time' or 'the issue is considered low priority at the current stage' I understand, but 'refuse to fix'

Re: Pasting Russian into Macintosh LyX

2003-10-21 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:35:56PM +0400, Peter Ringwood wrote: > I am a little new to the game, but is it usual for someone to put things as > strongly as 'refusing' to fix? 'Haven't got the time' or 'the issue is > considered low priority at the current stage' I understand, but 'refuse to >

Re: VERY SIMPLE QUESTION (!)

2003-10-16 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:10:32PM +0200, Tomasz Koziara wrote: HOW TO CENTER A TABLE OR A FIGURE (e.g. in float field) IN LYX There's no need to shout. Centre the paragraph it is in (Layout-Paragraph) john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread

Re: e diaresis (or umlaut)

2003-10-16 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:24:03PM +0100, Raphael Clifford wrote: Is there a lyx way to put two dots over an e (not in maths mode)? My name has such a character in it :) In latex it is \{e}. Just type it directly in... You may need to set up a compose key in X (search the net for how: you

Re: VERY SIMPLE QUESTION (!)

2003-10-16 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:10:32PM +0200, Tomasz Koziara wrote: HOW TO CENTER A TABLE OR A FIGURE (e.g. in float field) IN LYX There's no need to shout. Centre the paragraph it is in (Layout-Paragraph) john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread

Re: e diaresis (or umlaut)

2003-10-16 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:24:03PM +0100, Raphael Clifford wrote: Is there a lyx way to put two dots over an e (not in maths mode)? My name has such a character in it :) In latex it is \{e}. Just type it directly in... You may need to set up a compose key in X (search the net for how: you

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