Re: problem with bibliography

2009-07-31 Thread Manveru
2009/7/30 Sam Liddicott s...@liddicott.com: * Beny Spira wrote, On 29/07/09 22:05: Thanks to all that replied It turned out the problem was in some references that contained URL with special characteres. I deleted the URLs and the problem vanished. So... is that a Tex bug? Will you get a

Text wrap figure fails in a Hebrew document

2009-07-31 Thread Yosef Meller
Hi, I am trying to create a wrap figure in LyX. In an English document it works, but in a Hebrew document, inserting a wrap figure causes the DVI or PDF creation to fail with the following error in the LaTeX errors dialog: Argument of \everypar has an extra }. inserted text

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hello, Maybe a stupid question: But I realized that I can select/mark a sentence with the mouse, but I cannot drag this selected sentence around in Lyx, e.g. placing it in the paragraph above. Everytime I try this the sentence is deselected. With alt + arrow up (arrow down) you get to

Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

2009-07-31 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
I'm using lyx 1.6.3 on Sabayon Linux 4.2. Which is fairly impressive BTW. I like most of the user interface. Well that is except that As a keyboard-centric user with very poor mouse coordination I always resent screen space taken up by point n' click specific tools such as most toolbars. For

RE: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

2009-07-31 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
Is there any way to get them off my screen??? Tools-Preferences-Look Feel-Open Document in Tabs Vincent

Re: Text wrap figure fails in a Hebrew document

2009-07-31 Thread Sam Liddicott
* Yosef Meller wrote, On 31/07/09 09:47: Hi, I am trying to create a wrap figure in LyX. In an English document it works, but in a Hebrew document, inserting a wrap figure causes the DVI or PDF creation to fail with the following error in the LaTeX errors dialog: Argument of \everypar

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 06:12 -0700, Marcelo Acuña wrote: Hello, Maybe a stupid question: But I realized that I can select/mark a sentence with the mouse, but I cannot drag this selected sentence around in Lyx, e.g. placing it in the paragraph above. Everytime I try this the sentence

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ
Drag and drop text is one the most annoying things I have found with word processors. It is too easy to do it by accident, not notice, and output garbage for people to read. Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 06:12 -0700, Marcelo Acuña wrote: Hello, Maybe a stupid question: But

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 11:43 -0400, Michael Joyner: Drag and drop text is one the most annoying things I have found with word processors. It is too easy to do it by accident, not notice, and output garbage for people to read. I don't mean drag-n-drop with the mouse. I mean select 2 lines

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 11:43 -0400, Michael Joyner: Drag and drop text is one the most annoying things I have found with word processors. It is too easy to do it by accident, not notice, and output garbage for people to read. I don't mean drag-n-drop with the mouse. I

Re: The case for human parsable LyX native format

2009-07-31 Thread Hellmut Weber
Steve Litt schrieb: Hi all, I just solved two very difficult LyX problems using Vim, and it reminded me just how lucky we are that the current LyX native format is easily readable and parsable by a normally intelligent human. In the first case, LyX would crash about 3 seconds after opening

Re: The case for human parsable LyX native format

2009-07-31 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Hellmut Weber wrote: Steve Litt schrieb: So, as usual, Im pleading that as you decide on future native formats, you make the new formats as human parsable and editable as the current version. Thanks SteveT Hi LyX developpers, I would like to strongly support Steve's point of view !

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Johannes Knaus
First of all, I simply didn't realize that mouse drag'n'drop did not work in Lyx and thought this could maybe a platform specific issue, not a general one. On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 11:43 -0400, Michael Joyner: Drag and drop text is one the most annoying things I have found with word

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Johannes Knaus wrote: It certainly would be a problem, if implementing this feature really costs a lot of time. I simply don't know this as I'm not a programmer. To answer your question, this feature is straight forward to implement as we have developed own text work area and do not rely on a

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Johannes Knaus wrote: It certainly would be a problem, if implementing this feature really costs a lot of time. I simply don't know this as I'm not a programmer. To answer your question, this feature is straight forward to implement Hum... this feature is *not*

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 31 July 2009 12:20:27 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 11:43 -0400, Michael Joyner: Drag and drop text is one the most annoying things I have found with word processors. It is too easy to do it by accident, not notice, and output garbage

Re: The case for human parsable LyX native format

2009-07-31 Thread Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Hellmut Weber wrote: Steve Litt schrieb: So, as usual, Im pleading that as you decide on future native formats, you make the new formats as human parsable and editable as the current version. Thanks SteveT Hi LyX developpers, I would like to strongly support

RE: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

2009-07-31 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jul 31, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW did say: Is there any way to get them off my screen??? Tools-Preferences-Look Feel-Open Document in Tabs Thanks. But when I tried that the results were less than ideal. I don't know why I didn't realize I was talking about

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jul 31, Johannes Knaus did say: I can't imagine how one could mark some text with the mouse hold-and-click it and drag it around by accident. You have never seen *ME* try to use the mouse... Though it is frequently the easiest way to copy/paste text between

Re: problem with bibliography

2009-07-31 Thread Manveru
2009/7/30 Sam Liddicott s...@liddicott.com: * Beny Spira wrote, On 29/07/09 22:05: Thanks to all that replied It turned out the problem was in some references that contained URL with special characteres. I deleted the URLs and the problem vanished. So... is that a Tex bug? Will you get a

Text wrap figure fails in a Hebrew document

2009-07-31 Thread Yosef Meller
Hi, I am trying to create a wrap figure in LyX. In an English document it works, but in a Hebrew document, inserting a wrap figure causes the DVI or PDF creation to fail with the following error in the LaTeX errors dialog: Argument of \everypar has an extra }. inserted text

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hello, Maybe a stupid question: But I realized that I can select/mark a sentence with the mouse, but I cannot drag this selected sentence around in Lyx, e.g. placing it in the paragraph above. Everytime I try this the sentence is deselected. With alt + arrow up (arrow down) you get to

Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

2009-07-31 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
I'm using lyx 1.6.3 on Sabayon Linux 4.2. Which is fairly impressive BTW. I like most of the user interface. Well that is except that As a keyboard-centric user with very poor mouse coordination I always resent screen space taken up by point n' click specific tools such as most toolbars. For

RE: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

2009-07-31 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
Is there any way to get them off my screen??? Tools-Preferences-Look Feel-Open Document in Tabs Vincent

Re: Text wrap figure fails in a Hebrew document

2009-07-31 Thread Sam Liddicott
* Yosef Meller wrote, On 31/07/09 09:47: Hi, I am trying to create a wrap figure in LyX. In an English document it works, but in a Hebrew document, inserting a wrap figure causes the DVI or PDF creation to fail with the following error in the LaTeX errors dialog: Argument of \everypar

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 06:12 -0700, Marcelo Acuña wrote: Hello, Maybe a stupid question: But I realized that I can select/mark a sentence with the mouse, but I cannot drag this selected sentence around in Lyx, e.g. placing it in the paragraph above. Everytime I try this the sentence

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ
Drag and drop text is one the most annoying things I have found with word processors. It is too easy to do it by accident, not notice, and output garbage for people to read. Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 06:12 -0700, Marcelo Acuña wrote: Hello, Maybe a stupid question: But

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 11:43 -0400, Michael Joyner: Drag and drop text is one the most annoying things I have found with word processors. It is too easy to do it by accident, not notice, and output garbage for people to read. I don't mean drag-n-drop with the mouse. I mean select 2 lines

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 11:43 -0400, Michael Joyner: Drag and drop text is one the most annoying things I have found with word processors. It is too easy to do it by accident, not notice, and output garbage for people to read. I don't mean drag-n-drop with the mouse. I

Re: The case for human parsable LyX native format

2009-07-31 Thread Hellmut Weber
Steve Litt schrieb: Hi all, I just solved two very difficult LyX problems using Vim, and it reminded me just how lucky we are that the current LyX native format is easily readable and parsable by a normally intelligent human. In the first case, LyX would crash about 3 seconds after opening

Re: The case for human parsable LyX native format

2009-07-31 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Hellmut Weber wrote: Steve Litt schrieb: So, as usual, Im pleading that as you decide on future native formats, you make the new formats as human parsable and editable as the current version. Thanks SteveT Hi LyX developpers, I would like to strongly support Steve's point of view !

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Johannes Knaus
First of all, I simply didn't realize that mouse drag'n'drop did not work in Lyx and thought this could maybe a platform specific issue, not a general one. On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 11:43 -0400, Michael Joyner: Drag and drop text is one the most annoying things I have found with word

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Johannes Knaus wrote: It certainly would be a problem, if implementing this feature really costs a lot of time. I simply don't know this as I'm not a programmer. To answer your question, this feature is straight forward to implement as we have developed own text work area and do not rely on a

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Johannes Knaus wrote: It certainly would be a problem, if implementing this feature really costs a lot of time. I simply don't know this as I'm not a programmer. To answer your question, this feature is straight forward to implement Hum... this feature is *not*

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 31 July 2009 12:20:27 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 11:43 -0400, Michael Joyner: Drag and drop text is one the most annoying things I have found with word processors. It is too easy to do it by accident, not notice, and output garbage

Re: The case for human parsable LyX native format

2009-07-31 Thread Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Hellmut Weber wrote: Steve Litt schrieb: So, as usual, Im pleading that as you decide on future native formats, you make the new formats as human parsable and editable as the current version. Thanks SteveT Hi LyX developpers, I would like to strongly support

RE: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

2009-07-31 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jul 31, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW did say: Is there any way to get them off my screen??? Tools-Preferences-Look Feel-Open Document in Tabs Thanks. But when I tried that the results were less than ideal. I don't know why I didn't realize I was talking about

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jul 31, Johannes Knaus did say: I can't imagine how one could mark some text with the mouse hold-and-click it and drag it around by accident. You have never seen *ME* try to use the mouse... Though it is frequently the easiest way to copy/paste text between

Re: problem with bibliography

2009-07-31 Thread Manveru
2009/7/30 Sam Liddicott : > * Beny Spira wrote, On 29/07/09 22:05: >> Thanks to all that replied >> >> It turned out the problem was in some references that contained URL with >> special characteres. I deleted the URLs and the problem vanished. > > > So... is that a Tex bug?

Text wrap figure fails in a Hebrew document

2009-07-31 Thread Yosef Meller
Hi, I am trying to create a wrap figure in LyX. In an English document it works, but in a Hebrew document, inserting a wrap figure causes the DVI or PDF creation to fail with the following error in the LaTeX errors dialog: Argument of \everypar has an extra }. \par l.44

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Marcelo Acuña
> Hello, > > Maybe a stupid question: > But I realized that I can select/mark a sentence with the > mouse, but I cannot drag this selected sentence around in > Lyx, e.g. placing it in the paragraph above. Everytime I try > this the sentence is deselected. With alt + arrow up (arrow down) you

Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

2009-07-31 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
I'm using lyx 1.6.3 on Sabayon Linux 4.2. Which is fairly impressive BTW. I like most of the user interface. Well that is except that As a keyboard-centric user with very poor mouse coordination I always resent screen space taken up by point n' click specific tools such as most toolbars. For

RE: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

2009-07-31 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
> Is there any way to get them off my screen??? Tools->Preferences->Look & Feel->Open Document in Tabs Vincent

Re: Text wrap figure fails in a Hebrew document

2009-07-31 Thread Sam Liddicott
* Yosef Meller wrote, On 31/07/09 09:47: > Hi, > > I am trying to create a wrap figure in LyX. In an English document it > works, but in a Hebrew document, inserting a wrap figure causes the DVI > or PDF creation to fail with the following error in the LaTeX errors > dialog: > > Argument of

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 06:12 -0700, Marcelo Acuña wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Maybe a stupid question: > > But I realized that I can select/mark a sentence with the > > mouse, but I cannot drag this selected sentence around in > > Lyx, e.g. placing it in the paragraph above. Everytime I try > > this

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ
"Drag and drop" text is one the most annoying things I have found with word processors. It is too easy to do it by accident, not notice, and output garbage for people to read. Nikos Alexandris wrote: > On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 06:12 -0700, Marcelo Acuña wrote: > >>> Hello, >>> >>> Maybe a stupid

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 11:43 -0400, Michael Joyner: > "Drag and drop" text is one the most annoying things I have found with > word processors. > It is too easy to do it by accident, not notice, and output garbage > for people to read. I don't mean drag-n-drop with the mouse. I mean select 2

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 11:43 -0400, Michael Joyner: "Drag and drop" text is one the most annoying things I have found with word processors. It is too easy to do it by accident, not notice, and output garbage for people to read. I don't mean drag-n-drop with the mouse.

Re: The case for human parsable LyX native format

2009-07-31 Thread Hellmut Weber
Steve Litt schrieb: Hi all, I just solved two very difficult LyX problems using Vim, and it reminded me just how lucky we are that the current LyX native format is easily readable and parsable by a normally intelligent human. In the first case, LyX would crash about 3 seconds after opening

Re: The case for human parsable LyX native format

2009-07-31 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Hellmut Weber wrote: Steve Litt schrieb: So, as usual, I"m pleading that as you decide on future native formats, you make the new formats as human parsable and editable as the current version. Thanks SteveT Hi LyX developpers, I would like to strongly support Steve's point of view !

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Johannes Knaus
First of all, I simply didn't realize that mouse drag'n'drop did not work in Lyx and thought this could maybe a platform specific issue, not a general one. On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 11:43 -0400, Michael Joyner: "Drag and drop" text is one the most annoying things I have found with word

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Johannes Knaus wrote: It certainly would be a problem, if implementing this feature really costs a lot of time. I simply don't know this as I'm not a programmer. To answer your question, this feature is straight forward to implement as we have developed own text work area and do not rely on a

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Johannes Knaus wrote: It certainly would be a problem, if implementing this feature really costs a lot of time. I simply don't know this as I'm not a programmer. To answer your question, this feature is straight forward to implement Hum... "this feature is *not*

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 31 July 2009 12:20:27 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Nikos Alexandris wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 11:43 -0400, Michael Joyner: > >> "Drag and drop" text is one the most annoying things I have found with > >> word processors. > >> It is too easy to do it by accident, not notice, and

Re: The case for human parsable LyX native format

2009-07-31 Thread Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Hellmut Weber wrote: >> Steve Litt schrieb: >>> So, as usual, I"m pleading that as you decide on future native >>> formats, you make the new formats as human parsable and editable as >>> the current version. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> SteveT >>> >>> >> >> Hi LyX developpers,

RE: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

2009-07-31 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jul 31, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW did say: > > Is there any way to get them off my screen??? > > Tools->Preferences->Look & Feel->Open Document in Tabs > Thanks. But when I tried that the results were less than ideal. I don't know why I didn't realize I was talking

Re: Drag and Drop

2009-07-31 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jul 31, Johannes Knaus did say: > I can't imagine how one could mark some text with the mouse hold-and-click it > and drag it around by accident. You have never seen *ME* try to use the mouse... Though it is frequently the easiest way to copy/paste text between