Re: wild development ideas

2000-03-14 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:22:35 +0200 >>From: Tuukka Toivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: wild development ideas >> >>On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Andre Poenitz wrote: >> >>> The problem is parsing. First you have to convert from >>

Re: wild development ideas

2000-03-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
> Offtopic, but I wonder is MuPad/Maple better than Maxima? I personally > believe they are not but this is just a belief. Well, MuPAD is more or less free, Maple costs. The other day my boss installed MuPAD and told me afterwards that its far from Maple's capabilities. I do trust him in this cas

Re: Compilation of Lyx 1.1.4

2000-03-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
> Which development packages are meant In case of SuSE 6.2 this should be xdevel-3.3.4-11.rpm or the xdevel.rpm on your CD. Use yast or rpm to install it. > why does Lyx 1.0.1 run fine? Because it SuSE ships it in binary form so the X headers are not needed. Andre' PS: > --=_NextPart

Re: wild development ideas

2000-03-14 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Andre Poenitz wrote: > The problem is parsing. First you have to convert from > LyX formula (sort of LaTeX) to Maple syntax which is *not* trivial > since LaTeX does not preserve the logical structure of the formula Yes, but from LyX ro Octave/Scilab should be actually very

Re: Compilation of Lyx 1.1.4

2000-03-14 Thread Frank Derichsweiler
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 11:11:53PM +0100, Dirk Feyerabend wrote: > I'm running Lyx 1.0.1 on SUSE 6.2. Recently I wanted to upgrade to > 1.1.4. But if I try to run "./configure" I get the following > error. X-Libraries not found. If you work under Linux check wether > you have the development-pack

Re: symbol R for real numbers

2000-03-14 Thread Gerald Gutierrez
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, you wrote: > Hallo, > > how can I include the R for real numbers (and the N for integer numbers): > I want to write in math: x element of R Go into math mode .. type \Re. There's also \Im ad others. I don't know which N you're talking about. There is \aleph; we use it to rep

Re: not-so-wild wild development ideas

2000-03-14 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Norm Matloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Here is something which is relatively easy to implement but which I | believe would be helpful to many people: A word-completion feature | in the LyX editor, like those of various other editors. | | For example, suppose I wish to type the word "reali

Compilation of Lyx 1.1.4

2000-03-14 Thread Dirk Feyerabend
Hi, I'm running Lyx 1.0.1 on SUSE 6.2. Recently I wanted to upgrade to 1.1.4. But if I try to run "./configure" I get the following error. X-Libraries not found. If you work under Linux check wether you have the development-packages installed. Which development packages are meant by that and

Re: One small help...[ Koul ]

2000-03-14 Thread Herbert Voss
> Sir, while the command \fbox of latex works properly for some arguments, it does > not work for all. Suppose, while it works for arguments like \fbox{xy=2}, it may > not work for complex arguments involving fractions and complex math-equations. > I am not able view a box around the mathematical

Re: wild development ideas

2000-03-14 Thread Staffan Ringbom
The idea is implemented in Scientific Workplace (www.tcisoft.com) There it is possible to use Maple or Mathematica from a latex(2.09)-shell. Isn't is possible to use Mathematica from MS-word as well (Wolfram should have a addon for that??) Would indeed be nice to use Scilab or MuPAD or Maxima (

One small help...[ Koul ]

2000-03-14 Thread Rakesh Koul
Sir, I want one small help in Lyx. Sir, while the command \fbox of latex works properly for some arguments, it does not work for all. Suppose, while it works for arguments like \fbox{xy=2}, it may not work for complex arguments involving fractions and complex math-equations. I am not able view a

not-so-wild wild development ideas

2000-03-14 Thread Norm Matloff
Here is something which is relatively easy to implement but which I believe would be helpful to many people: A word-completion feature in the LyX editor, like those of various other editors. For example, suppose I wish to type the word "realization", and it already exists elsewhere in my docum

Re: wild development ideas

2000-03-14 Thread Raymond E. Rogers
Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > Sounds truly wild. If these programms have a scripting or macro > > language, > > Most of the interesting programs are scriptable. Maple e.g: > > echo "lprint(expand((x+1)^3));" | maple -q > > --> x^3+3*x^2+3*x+1 > > The problem is parsing. First y

Re: follow-up (!)

2000-03-14 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 04:07:41PM +, Tony Dancer wrote: > > > Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. > 0x401ea4e1 in __kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 > > I get this in GDB when i do `continue' -- sorry for the self-followup, > but I am really finding my way round GDB in the dark, so to spe

Re: symbol R for real numbers

2000-03-14 Thread Herbert Voss
Torsten Mueller wrote: > > Hallo, > > how can I include the R for real numbers (and the N for integer numbers): > I want to write in math: x element of R > > I have tried it with usepackage{amssymb} and then \Bbb{R}, but this > gives error messages when it comes to the table of contents. try

Re: symbol R for real numbers

2000-03-14 Thread Alexander Wollmann
Torsten Mueller wrote: > Hallo, > > how can I include the R for real numbers (and the N for integer numbers): > I want to write in math: x element of R > > I have tried it with usepackage{amssymb} and then \Bbb{R}, but this > gives error messages when it comes to the table of contents. > > Thanks

Re: wild development ideas

2000-03-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
> Sounds truly wild. If these programms have a scripting or macro > language, Most of the interesting programs are scriptable. Maple e.g: echo "lprint(expand((x+1)^3));" | maple -q --> x^3+3*x^2+3*x+1 The problem is parsing. First you have to convert from LyX formula (sort of L

Re: crashing part 2

2000-03-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Tony" == Tony Dancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tony> (gdb) backtrace #0 0x80f9115 in ?? () #1 0x80f5076 in ?? () #2 Tony> 0x80bbdc9 in ?? () #3 0x80b6732 in ?? () #4 0x806329d in ?? () Tony> #5 0x8063330 in ?? () #6 0x40046083 in pre_emptive_consumed () Tony> from /usr/lib/libforms.so.0.

symbol R for real numbers

2000-03-14 Thread Torsten Mueller
Hallo, how can I include the R for real numbers (and the N for integer numbers): I want to write in math: x element of R I have tried it with usepackage{amssymb} and then \Bbb{R}, but this gives error messages when it comes to the table of contents. Thanks, Torsten

follow-up (!)

2000-03-14 Thread Tony Dancer
Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. 0x401ea4e1 in __kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 I get this in GDB when i do `continue' -- sorry for the self-followup, but I am really finding my way round GDB in the dark, so to speak. tony --- < Previously, I wrote.> (gdb) backtrace #0 0x80f9

Re: wild development ideas

2000-03-14 Thread timm danker
Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > > Now, why not integrate[1] Maxima and maybe Octave too to LyX? Imagine > writing an equation in LyX, and selecting "solve" from Math menu and your > equation would be solved? > > In any case, some automatic way to transfer data between > Maxima<->Octave<->Scilab<->LyX

crashing part 2

2000-03-14 Thread Tony Dancer
(gdb) backtrace #0 0x80f9115 in ?? () #1 0x80f5076 in ?? () #2 0x80bbdc9 in ?? () #3 0x80b6732 in ?? () #4 0x806329d in ?? () #5 0x8063330 in ?? () #6 0x40046083 in pre_emptive_consumed () from /usr/lib/libforms.so.0.88 #7 0x40045380 in do_interaction_step () from /usr/lib/libforms.so.0.88

wild development ideas

2000-03-14 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
This would belong really to lyx-devel, but I'm not used to use that mailing list... I just found a _great_ symbolic mathematics program called Maxima. It's GNU version of Macsyma, which in turn is over 30 years old software. But it's great, comparable to Mathematica (well, I have never really use

Re: Wrap text around figure

2000-03-14 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
> (And sometimes, text is printed over the figure in the standard > environnement ... ) Happened to me when i tried to add a high picture just before a chapter/section title. The text in the following section didn't get wrapped but overwritten to the image. Try moving the image just after the sec

Re: "Dedicated to..."

2000-03-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Emanuele" == Emanuele Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Emanuele> How can I have a white page at the beginning of my thesis Emanuele> with only this sentence in center-right position: "Dedicated Emanuele> to my parents" or something similar ? Is there any Emanuele> possibility to do tha

Re: "Dedicated to..."

2000-03-14 Thread Herbert Voss
Emanuele Olivetti wrote: > > How can I have a white page at the beginning of my thesis with only > this sentence in center-right position: "Dedicated to my parents" or > something similar ? Is there any possibility to do that under LyX? \newpage% only important, if it's not the first page \

"Dedicated to..."

2000-03-14 Thread Emanuele Olivetti
How can I have a white page at the beginning of my thesis with only this sentence in center-right position: "Dedicated to my parents" or something similar ? Is there any possibility to do that under LyX? Thanks a lot Emanuele

Re: euro symbol

2000-03-14 Thread Herbert Voss
Ronald Florence wrote: > > Nabil Hathout writes: > > I use eurosym.sty and am satisfied by the typo. > > Hmmm. I fetched the eurosym.sty package from a TeX archive, installed > it in a teTeX directory, did texhash, put \usepackage{eurosym} in the > preface and \euro{} in the text in TeX mode

Re: Using another language...

2000-03-14 Thread Stephan E. Schlierf
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Dragutin Cvetkovic wrote: > Greets, > > Well, the tiem has come when I finally have a very serious application > of the whole LyX/LaTeX software, and I have come upon two problems. > > The first problem is as follows: When I insert a table of contents, it > work