Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-24 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Pavel Sanda wrote: Yes: next-inset-toggle (Ctrl-i with cua.bind) this behaviour is intended? Yes. For the users. C-i allows editing of the dialog. We had a request that this also should be possible for URL and friends, that's why it has been implemented. Query bugzilla for details. Jürgen

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-24 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Daniel Lohmann wrote: Before posting, I did look through the list of LFUNs (as offered by   the Alt+X command bar). However, I couldn't imagine next-inset-toggle   as the one I was looking for. Probably. More important, however, is that Ctrl-i somewhat acts consistently (IMHO). Jürgen

Re: Possible bug on document encoding.

2008-03-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Rudi Gaelzer schrieb: However, if I change the language encoding at Document - Settings - Language - Encoding to ascii, I can neither process nor export the text to LaTeX. This is the case of the yadas_ascii.lyx file attached. On the last file, if I remove the figure float and/or the

Re: Issue with LyX 1.5.3

2008-03-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bruno Azria schrieb: I am a new user of the LyX system, which I find outstanding. I face the following issue: - when I try to open the User's Guide from the LyX Help menu, I get the following error message : Document class not available : layout file requested by this document is not available

Re: Ask for help!

2008-03-24 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello Wu, On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 3:22 PM, WT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear LyX Developer, I am a LyX user from China. At first, thank you for giving us such a useful tool. I have some question about the template of LyX. I need to write my thesis in Chinese, so I can't use the

Re: Ask for Chinese LyX help!

2008-03-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
WT schrieb: I am a LyX user from China. At first, thank you for giving us such a useful tool. I have some question about the template of LyX. I need to write my thesis in Chinese, so I can't use the inherent template. How can I construct my own template? Could you help me? You

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-24 Thread rgheck
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Before posting, I did look through the list of LFUNs (as offered by the Alt+X command bar). However, I couldn't imagine next-inset-toggle as the one I was looking for. Probably. More important, however, is that Ctrl-i somewhat acts

Re: Question about 'keep with next'

2008-03-24 Thread rgheck
Steve Litt wrote: I think some good can come of this, assuming the author is reasonable about what he puts in the box. For instance, my 10 step Universal Troubleshooting Process really should be on one page, along with its header, even if it creates a gap on a page. If you're doing that,

Re: Is there an AMS report class for LyX?

2008-03-24 Thread rgheck
Geevarghese Philip wrote: This is fixed now. See the layout file attached. The fix was to add: Preamble \usepackage{amsthm} EndPreamble to the layout file. Yes, sorry. That's elsewhere in the ams class files. Put that in the theorem environment

Re: Non-starter

2008-03-24 Thread rgheck
Les Sharpe wrote: Good Morning All, Not sure who can best advise me so I am sending to both suggested addresses. I cannot get past the first example/test in the Tutorial (2.1.1 et seq). I type in the suggested sentence and whether I hit the view - dvi item in the drop down menu or the

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
Before posting, I did look through the list of LFUNs (as offered by   the Alt+X command bar). However, I couldn't imagine next-inset-toggle   as the one I was looking for. Probably. More important, however, is that Ctrl-i somewhat acts consistently (IMHO). which is the current state in

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-24 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Pavel Sanda wrote: which is the current state in your opinion? From a user POV, yes (except for the bug Richard referred to). Jürgen

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
which is the current state in your opinion? From a user POV, yes (except for the bug Richard referred to). in such a case we should at least rename the lfun to be clear that it does also the dialog opening for certain insets. when even devs are not able to find such an lfun there is

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-24 Thread rgheck
Pavel Sanda wrote: which is the current state in your opinion? From a user POV, yes (except for the bug Richard referred to). in such a case we should at least rename the lfun to be clear that it does also the dialog opening for certain insets. when even devs are not able to find

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
unfortunately all naming coming to my mind now are bit weird. any proposals? Well, note that what it does is highly context-dependent. If you're in a note but in front of ERT, for example, then Ctrl-I will do something to the ERT, not to the note. So, well, ??? lets bump it with

Re: Ask for help!

2008-03-24 Thread Bo Peng
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 9:22 AM, WT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear LyX Developer, I am a LyX user from China. At first, thank you for giving us such a useful tool. I have some question about the template of LyX. I need to write my thesis in Chinese, so I can't use the inherent

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, her spontaneous reaction to the original www.lyx.org and the wiki is that they currently suck. Guess I should be glad that the wiki wasn't worst at least... Slashdot got some good comments from her though. I agree that the current wiki looks a bit

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
Rich Shepard wrote: Regardless of what layout you choose and how you go about building it (I, too, support xhtml and css), there is one universal design criterion I urge you to follow: high contrast between text and background. I fully agree. The main text should be black-on-white instead of

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
Dominik Böhm wrote: To be honest with you, I first also thought that the main canvas looked old-fashioned, particularly the background color looked somehow like dirty old parchment to me. But it is very gentle to my eyes as the contrast between text and background isn't as high as in MS Word.

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Joost Verburg wrote: I think the default setting should be black-on-white because everyone is used to these colors. FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured to bright-white paper. The white background of usual text processors hurts my eyes. Jürgen

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Joost Verburg wrote: I think the default setting should be black-on-white because everyone is used to these colors. FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured to bright-white paper. The white background of usual text processors hurts my

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Joost Verburg wrote: But would you be opposed to having the usual colors as default? Personally, I'm opposed, yes (which does not mean that much). You can of course set your own color in the preferences. you too ;-) Jürgen

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: The white background of usual text processors hurts my eyes. That's a very common complaint. The brightness of large white backgrounds apparently make very subtle flickers apparent to the brain even when we do not consciously notice them. I

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:32:36 +0100 Joost Verburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured to bright-white paper. The white background of usual text processors hurts my eyes. But would you be opposed to having the usual colors as

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 24 March 2008 10:56, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, her spontaneous reaction to the original www.lyx.org and the wiki is that they currently suck. Guess I should be glad that the wiki wasn't worst at least... Slashdot got some good comments from her

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Jens Noeckel
On Mar 24, 2008, at 9:17 AM, John Coppens wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:32:36 +0100 Joost Verburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured to bright-white paper. The white background of usual text processors hurts my eyes. But would you

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread AK
John Coppens wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:32:36 +0100 Joost Verburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured to bright-white paper. The white background of usual text processors hurts my eyes. But would you be opposed to having

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread Jens Noeckel
On Mar 24, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 24 March 2008 10:56, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, her spontaneous reaction to the original www.lyx.org and the wiki is that they currently suck. Guess I should be glad that the wiki wasn't worst at

Re: Question about 'keep with next'

2008-03-24 Thread James Mansion
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're doing that, though, it sounds like what you really want is a float. Possibly, though I don't want any re-ordering. I'm only concerned in the case where the whole block is small - a conditional page throw if very near end of page would do the trick too.

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
haha...it looks like half the people are talking about the background within the program *LyX* (i.e. the pinkish background canvas), and half the people are referring to the background of the website, www.lyx.org. that might explain some confusion. rex On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:17 PM, John

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Jens Noeckel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wait a minute - weren't we talking about the PDF output... ;) Ack...I'll summarize my understanding: (1) I originally sent an email requesting that people send me LyX files, which I could turn into screenshots of either

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
Glad to have you on the list, Andrei. On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:46 PM, AK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Coppens wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:32:36 +0100 Joost Verburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured to bright-white

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
I also think the LyX.org site is OK except for the background and the white text... changing that alone could make a huge difference. I we have fix for this long time, but nobody on dev list commented the design so i let it die. http://195.113.31.123/~sanda/junk/lyx/www/ pavel

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: I also think the LyX.org site is OK except for the background and the white text... changing that alone could make a huge difference. I we have fix for this long time, but nobody on dev list commented the design so i let it die.

Primary colours of LyX? Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: Regardless of what layout you choose and how you go about building it (I, too, support xhtml and css), there is one universal design criterion I urge you to follow: high contrast between text and background. I fully agree.

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Glad to have you on the list, Andrei. Hi Andrei, Just for the record, when I said I didn't like pure white as a background, I was talking about the main window of the LyX application... /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, John Coppens wrote: But would you be opposed to having the usual colors as default? You can of course set your own color in the preferences. Again, FWIW, I _hate_ white backgrounds, and spend time with each program to figure out how I can reprogram it to something more

Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, her spontaneous reaction to the original www.lyx.org and the wiki is that they currently suck. Guess I should be glad that the wiki wasn't worst at least... Slashdot got some good comments from her though.

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not leave the page background undefined? Most browsers allow selection of a default background color, don't they? Eh... what would this result in for most users? (I'm not sure I'd realise that I can change the colour) I've changed the

Re: Temporary change to website background (was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
It looks like we will be creating a whole new design soon, but as a temporary solution that looks like an improvement to me. Rex On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: I also think the LyX.org site is OK except for the background

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kind of information do people think should be on that page? (I.e. the very first page that is shown when you go to http://wiki.lyx.org?) Please give me some ideas! Take out all the text in the middle and emphasize the menus. There can be a

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-24 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
Since we are discussing design issues, and we have a graphic designer on board (Andrei), it seems a logical time to bring up the topic of logo design that was discussed a bit earlier this month. I am attaching some of the graphic designs that were proposed last time. Andrei is a creative guy and

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread AK
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Glad to have you on the list, Andrei. Hi Andrei, Just for the record, when I said I didn't like pure white as a background, I was talking about the main window of the LyX application... /C Doh, I completely missed

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-24 Thread AK
Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Since we are discussing design issues, and we have a graphic designer on board (Andrei), it seems a logical time to bring up the topic of logo design that was discussed a bit earlier this month. I am attaching some of the graphic designs that were proposed last time.

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
nice if we give him our input, even if it would just be a modification to the existing monster/bird/? design. What do you all think? there was quite agreement the lyx-icon/document you picked now back is not better then our monster. pavel

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
I think we could do a more impressive design with something fractal or a graph of some impressive-looking function.. if that makes any sense. The first design here could be good as an app icon.. -andrei there are currently two main logos - monster and the banner you see when launch lyx. i

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, AK wrote: Just for the record, when I said I didn't like pure white as a background, I was talking about the main window of the LyX application... Doh, I completely missed the point where we branched off to talk about the LyX app as well as the site.. But, it seems to

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kind of information do people think should be on that page? (I.e. the very first page that is shown when you go to http://wiki.lyx.org?) Please give me some ideas! Take out all the text in the

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: nice if we give him our input, even if it would just be a modification to the existing monster/bird/? design. What do you all think? there was quite agreement the lyx-icon/document you picked now back is not better then our monster. pavel I didn't

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: I think we could do a more impressive design with something fractal or a graph of some impressive-looking function.. if that makes any sense. The first design here could be good as an app icon.. -andrei there are currently two main logos - monster and

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 02:41:28PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: which is the current state in your opinion? From a user POV, yes (except for the bug Richard referred to). in such a case we should at least rename the lfun to be clear that it does also the dialog opening for certain insets.

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread John Kane
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Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:25:35PM +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Joost Verburg wrote: I think the default setting should be black-on-white because everyone is used to these colors. FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured to bright-white paper. The white

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
nice if we give him our input, even if it would just be a modification to the existing monster/bird/? design. What do you all think? there was quite agreement the lyx-icon/document you picked now back is not better then our monster. pavel I didn't understand what you wrote to be honest,

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread rgheck
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:25:35PM +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Joost Verburg wrote: I think the default setting should be black-on-white because everyone is used to these colors. FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured to

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 03:12:32PM -0400, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Since we are discussing design issues, and we have a graphic designer on board (Andrei), it seems a logical time to bring up the topic of logo design that was discussed a bit earlier this month. I am attaching some of the

Re: Primary colours of LyX? Was: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do LyX have some sort of primary colours? Or some kind of colour theme? My company spent money on letting a designer come up with a colour set, where we should try and use a certain combo of colours... Do we have something like that? In my opinion a color set

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Joost Verburg wrote: But would you be opposed to having the usual colors as default? Personally, I'm opposed, yes (which does not mean that much). You can of course set your own color in the preferences. you too ;-) You're right about that. For both of us the

Re: Introduction text of the wiki (Was: Website re-design ideas)

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you probably have a point here. I wrote that page in... oh, say around 2003, and at that time wikis weren't that common. Now I suspect that it's not really necessary to explain the concept of the wiki any more. What kind of information do people think should

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:46:49 -0500 AK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK no browsers let you set them to use some color if no background is set but will show document's color if it is set - but I could be wrong about this. Firefox does this, feature which I've been using for years now. There's

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread curtis osterhoudt
- Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 12:32:14 PM Subject: Re: Request for screenshots On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, John Coppens wrote: But would you be opposed to having the usual colors as

Sweave with beamer

2008-03-24 Thread Kevin Middleton
Hello LyXers - I have been using Gregor Gorjanc's literate- {article,book,report}.layout files with LyX and Sweave (http://gregor.gorjanc.googlepages.com/lyx-sweave ) with success. Lately, I have been trying to get Sweave to work with beamer through LyX. To start, I modified

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
Andre Poenitz wrote: I'd like to have the bird in one way or the other. Smoothing edges, adding something in the background or similar I can live with... A good logo should be recognized immediately. The bird is the only one here that is somewhat unique. I don't know how it represents the LyX

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-24 Thread M-L
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg shared this with us all: --} A good logo should be recognized immediately. The bird is the only one --} here that is somewhat unique. I don't know how it represents the LyX --} brand and it may be more a mascot than a logo, but in my opinion we --} should not

Re: Possible bug on document encoding.

2008-03-24 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Rudi Gaelzer writes: I want to report this first here. If you agree that this is a bug, I can file a report... Yes, this is a bug. Indeed, if you move the paragraph with accented chars in yadas_ascii.lyx before the figure float, everything works. Please, file a bug report. -- Enrico

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Joost Verburg wrote: It's more a marketing thing, you don't want your software to look too unusual at first sight. Just like with websites, people tend to quickly uninstall things they don't understand. I think the background color is something that makes LyX unique in a positive way. Jürgen

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-24 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Pavel Sanda wrote: Yes: next-inset-toggle (Ctrl-i with cua.bind) this behaviour is intended? Yes. For the users. C-i allows editing of the dialog. We had a request that this also should be possible for URL and friends, that's why it has been implemented. Query bugzilla for details. Jürgen

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-24 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Daniel Lohmann wrote: Before posting, I did look through the list of LFUNs (as offered by   the Alt+X command bar). However, I couldn't imagine next-inset-toggle   as the one I was looking for. Probably. More important, however, is that Ctrl-i somewhat acts consistently (IMHO). Jürgen

Re: Possible bug on document encoding.

2008-03-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Rudi Gaelzer schrieb: However, if I change the language encoding at Document - Settings - Language - Encoding to ascii, I can neither process nor export the text to LaTeX. This is the case of the yadas_ascii.lyx file attached. On the last file, if I remove the figure float and/or the

Re: Issue with LyX 1.5.3

2008-03-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bruno Azria schrieb: I am a new user of the LyX system, which I find outstanding. I face the following issue: - when I try to open the User's Guide from the LyX Help menu, I get the following error message : Document class not available : layout file requested by this document is not available

Re: Ask for help!

2008-03-24 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello Wu, On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 3:22 PM, WT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear LyX Developer, I am a LyX user from China. At first, thank you for giving us such a useful tool. I have some question about the template of LyX. I need to write my thesis in Chinese, so I can't use the

Re: Ask for Chinese LyX help!

2008-03-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
WT schrieb: I am a LyX user from China. At first, thank you for giving us such a useful tool. I have some question about the template of LyX. I need to write my thesis in Chinese, so I can't use the inherent template. How can I construct my own template? Could you help me? You

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-24 Thread rgheck
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Before posting, I did look through the list of LFUNs (as offered by the Alt+X command bar). However, I couldn't imagine next-inset-toggle as the one I was looking for. Probably. More important, however, is that Ctrl-i somewhat acts

Re: Question about 'keep with next'

2008-03-24 Thread rgheck
Steve Litt wrote: I think some good can come of this, assuming the author is reasonable about what he puts in the box. For instance, my 10 step Universal Troubleshooting Process really should be on one page, along with its header, even if it creates a gap on a page. If you're doing that,

Re: Is there an AMS report class for LyX?

2008-03-24 Thread rgheck
Geevarghese Philip wrote: This is fixed now. See the layout file attached. The fix was to add: Preamble \usepackage{amsthm} EndPreamble to the layout file. Yes, sorry. That's elsewhere in the ams class files. Put that in the theorem environment

Re: Non-starter

2008-03-24 Thread rgheck
Les Sharpe wrote: Good Morning All, Not sure who can best advise me so I am sending to both suggested addresses. I cannot get past the first example/test in the Tutorial (2.1.1 et seq). I type in the suggested sentence and whether I hit the view - dvi item in the drop down menu or the

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
Before posting, I did look through the list of LFUNs (as offered by   the Alt+X command bar). However, I couldn't imagine next-inset-toggle   as the one I was looking for. Probably. More important, however, is that Ctrl-i somewhat acts consistently (IMHO). which is the current state in

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-24 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Pavel Sanda wrote: which is the current state in your opinion? From a user POV, yes (except for the bug Richard referred to). Jürgen

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
which is the current state in your opinion? From a user POV, yes (except for the bug Richard referred to). in such a case we should at least rename the lfun to be clear that it does also the dialog opening for certain insets. when even devs are not able to find such an lfun there is

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-24 Thread rgheck
Pavel Sanda wrote: which is the current state in your opinion? From a user POV, yes (except for the bug Richard referred to). in such a case we should at least rename the lfun to be clear that it does also the dialog opening for certain insets. when even devs are not able to find

Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog

2008-03-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
unfortunately all naming coming to my mind now are bit weird. any proposals? Well, note that what it does is highly context-dependent. If you're in a note but in front of ERT, for example, then Ctrl-I will do something to the ERT, not to the note. So, well, ??? lets bump it with

Re: Ask for help!

2008-03-24 Thread Bo Peng
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 9:22 AM, WT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear LyX Developer, I am a LyX user from China. At first, thank you for giving us such a useful tool. I have some question about the template of LyX. I need to write my thesis in Chinese, so I can't use the inherent

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, her spontaneous reaction to the original www.lyx.org and the wiki is that they currently suck. Guess I should be glad that the wiki wasn't worst at least... Slashdot got some good comments from her though. I agree that the current wiki looks a bit

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
Rich Shepard wrote: Regardless of what layout you choose and how you go about building it (I, too, support xhtml and css), there is one universal design criterion I urge you to follow: high contrast between text and background. I fully agree. The main text should be black-on-white instead of

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
Dominik Böhm wrote: To be honest with you, I first also thought that the main canvas looked old-fashioned, particularly the background color looked somehow like dirty old parchment to me. But it is very gentle to my eyes as the contrast between text and background isn't as high as in MS Word.

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Joost Verburg wrote: I think the default setting should be black-on-white because everyone is used to these colors. FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured to bright-white paper. The white background of usual text processors hurts my eyes. Jürgen

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Verburg
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Joost Verburg wrote: I think the default setting should be black-on-white because everyone is used to these colors. FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured to bright-white paper. The white background of usual text processors hurts my

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Joost Verburg wrote: But would you be opposed to having the usual colors as default? Personally, I'm opposed, yes (which does not mean that much). You can of course set your own color in the preferences. you too ;-) Jürgen

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: The white background of usual text processors hurts my eyes. That's a very common complaint. The brightness of large white backgrounds apparently make very subtle flickers apparent to the brain even when we do not consciously notice them. I

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:32:36 +0100 Joost Verburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured to bright-white paper. The white background of usual text processors hurts my eyes. But would you be opposed to having the usual colors as

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 24 March 2008 10:56, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, her spontaneous reaction to the original www.lyx.org and the wiki is that they currently suck. Guess I should be glad that the wiki wasn't worst at least... Slashdot got some good comments from her

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Jens Noeckel
On Mar 24, 2008, at 9:17 AM, John Coppens wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:32:36 +0100 Joost Verburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured to bright-white paper. The white background of usual text processors hurts my eyes. But would you

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread AK
John Coppens wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:32:36 +0100 Joost Verburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured to bright-white paper. The white background of usual text processors hurts my eyes. But would you be opposed to having

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread Jens Noeckel
On Mar 24, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 24 March 2008 10:56, Joost Verburg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, her spontaneous reaction to the original www.lyx.org and the wiki is that they currently suck. Guess I should be glad that the wiki wasn't worst at

Re: Question about 'keep with next'

2008-03-24 Thread James Mansion
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're doing that, though, it sounds like what you really want is a float. Possibly, though I don't want any re-ordering. I'm only concerned in the case where the whole block is small - a conditional page throw if very near end of page would do the trick too.

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
haha...it looks like half the people are talking about the background within the program *LyX* (i.e. the pinkish background canvas), and half the people are referring to the background of the website, www.lyx.org. that might explain some confusion. rex On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:17 PM, John

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Jens Noeckel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wait a minute - weren't we talking about the PDF output... ;) Ack...I'll summarize my understanding: (1) I originally sent an email requesting that people send me LyX files, which I could turn into screenshots of either

Re: Request for screenshots

2008-03-24 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
Glad to have you on the list, Andrei. On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:46 PM, AK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Coppens wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:32:36 +0100 Joost Verburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I prefer the current color as much as I prefer creamy-coloured to bright-white

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
I also think the LyX.org site is OK except for the background and the white text... changing that alone could make a huge difference. I we have fix for this long time, but nobody on dev list commented the design so i let it die. http://195.113.31.123/~sanda/junk/lyx/www/ pavel

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-24 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: I also think the LyX.org site is OK except for the background and the white text... changing that alone could make a huge difference. I we have fix for this long time, but nobody on dev list commented the design so i let it die.

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