Re: Discussion: Labels and parent-child documents

G. Milde wrote: On 3.06.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: G. Milde wrote: On 3.06.08, Nicolás wrote: Well, one problem I can see is that this could make cut and paste between documents difficult. And it involves a lot of keeping track of what's a child of what. Not really. Note

Re: Discussion: Labels and parent-child documents

G. Milde wrote: On 3.06.08, Nicolás wrote: Well, one problem I can see is that this could make cut and paste between documents difficult. And it involves a lot of keeping track of what's a child of what. Not really. Note that labels and cross-references are only updated when we export to

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Re: Discussion: Labels and parent-child documents

Nicolás wrote: You are right in that we may have cross-references between children documents. I still think that my proposal of automatically renaming labels is a good idea. Side note FYI: In 1.6 duplicate Labels are not changed automatically but they are clearly marked as DUPLICATE in the wo

Re: Problems with LyX 1.5.5 after MAC OS X update

Bennett Helm wrote: On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Bennett Helm wrote: > I don't know of anything that would affect it, and I haven't seen anything > like that screenshot. I wonder if the file you downloaded

Re: 1.6 release

Uwe Stöhr wrote: Rune Schjellerup Philosof schrieb: http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/ReleaseSchedule I updated this. FWIW beta1 is scheduled for this thursday. At least that is the last words of our release manager. Famous last word :-) Hmm. What happened? No status on beta 1 on the release sched

Re: 1.6 release

Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote: Abdelrazak Younes skrev: Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote: Hi How is it going along with version 1.6? According to the release schedule alpha 2 has been released, but beta 1 and 2 should also have been released, but have not. Also even though alpha 2 should

Re: Spell check on the fly?

Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Hi All, This is an old thread, but I too would really like to see the "Spell Check on Fly" feature in LyX. And if I'm already at it, I would also like to see "grammer on the fly", because this is also a great feature in MS-word, which I am really lacking with LyX. If I

Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document

Helge Hafting wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: How difficult would it be to support unicode in maths? In 1.5 forget about it. In 1.6 that would require a lot of work I guess. This wasn't any generic unicode character, it was a delta which is normally used in

Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: This is bug 4891 (http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4891). JMarc has found the solution: replace the unicode greek letter Delta (∆) in your formula with the equivalent \Delta (press space after typing \Del

Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document

Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Before I added math to the thesis, everything was fine and all of the pictures worked... cannot get what happened here. Plus, since I added all of this math, I cannot make a preview or export to pdf anyway... no damned error output is

Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document

Abdelrazak Younes wrote: The DarkMaster wrote: And what can I do to use my graphic? Try to copy the graphics one by one to the new location and reopen the file each time. Once you've located the guilty graphic, try to open it with some other software to see if it c

Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document

The DarkMaster wrote: And what can I do to use my graphic? Try to copy the graphics one by one to the new location and reopen the file each time. Once you've located the guilty graphic, try to open it with some other software to see if it can be corrected. Ok, I followed your suggestion but s

Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document

The DarkMaster wrote: And what can I do to use my graphic? Try to copy the graphics one by one to the new location and reopen the file each time. Once you've located the guilty graphic, try to open it with some other software to see if it can be corrected. Ok, I followed

Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document

Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Before I added math to the thesis, everything was fine and all of the pictures worked... cannot get what happened here. Plus, since I added all of this math, I cannot make a preview or export to pdf anyway... no damned error output is displayed :( Could you try to see

Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document

The DarkMaster wrote: I cannot reproduce the crash, the file opens correctly with latest 1.5 here. Maybe it's related to one of the graphics linked in the document. Could you try to open your file from a directory where LyX will not find the graphics? Uhm... you 90% saved me a

Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document

TheDarkMaster wrote: Hallo Abdel, I don't know which file to delete, you don't specify it in your answer, This is the file "session" sorry. but at least I tried to look in my mac for the lyxrc.default file and I don't have it... Are you sure it can be a problem related to this, since I instal

Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document

TheDarkMaster wrote: Please help me, I'm loosing an important university thesis. The last time I opened my Lyx document in Mac OSX (using the latest 1.5.5 Lyx versin), I added a lot of maths using the Lyx functions and when I tried to open the preview in pdf, it didn't work. So I restarted OSX th

Re: Collaboration using LyX in a MS Office workplace

David Hewitt wrote: In the past, latex2rtf solved my problems regarding collaborating with folks tied to MS Office (http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ExportingRichTextFormatWithLaTeX2rtf). Now I work with documents that are a little much for latex2rtf, and I get nothing but error messages upon Export atte

Re: suppressing captions in some floats

Andre Poenitz wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:49:37AM -0700, Brian Guenter wrote: I want to insert program listings into my document. I don't want the program listings to be broken across pages so I put them inside figures. Now each program listing has a figure label and number which I don't w

Re: Greek Fonts don't display on Screen but print out in PDF

Paul A. Rubin wrote: Erez Yerushalmi wrote: (Sorry for sending this again - if I did. I am not sure to which address to send a question to. Sorry ) Hi, I'm a new user to LyX. Just installed LyX 1.5.5 on my Windows XP. Most of the Greek Fonts such as \alpha \beta \gamma etc. come out on scre

Re: Can't convert graphviz DOT format to PDF

Paul A. Rubin wrote: Hi Abdel, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Maybe you could contribute this converter to LyX? I am very interested in dot but never took the time to try to integrate it within LyX. Happy to oblige, but I'm not sure what there is to contribute. These are the lines I add

Re: Personal dictionary

Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote: I have just checked it thoroughly, and the personal dictionary is placed in C:\ProgramData\Aspell\Personal, which is very stupid. So why is this stupid someone might ask. Well: - First of all, this makes it a global dictionary for all users, not that personal. -

Re: Can't convert graphviz DOT format to PDF

John Pye wrote: FWIW, I think that rather than an all-powerful GUI for editing converters, file formats, etc, these things should be stored in flat platform-specific configuration files that can be packaged for distribution as 'plugins' eg a set of LyX configuration files + linux package dependen

Re: Can't convert graphviz DOT format to PDF

Paul A. Rubin wrote: John Pye wrote: If I make a DOT->PNG converter and use that, it works fine. So there is nothing wrong with LyX's ability to make some form of file conversion here. It fails when I attempt to configure a conversion from DOT to PDF. Works fine for me here. Keep in mi

Re: segmentation fault

Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 20 May 2008 06:27, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Khusnutdinov Nail schrieb: I just installed lyx 1.5.4 by using repository of Fedora. My system: ASPLinux 12 (based on Fedora 7). I use KDE 3.5 but with installed parts of KDE4 and Qt4. When I start in console lyx I obtain result:

Re: segmentation fault

Uwe Stöhr wrote: Steve Litt schrieb: Also, I'd like to once again recommend that the developers develop each LyX version to be compatible with a wider range of Qt. LyX 1.5 can be compiled with Qt 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4. And 4.1. Abdel.

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

Marwan Boustany wrote: On Tue, 20 May 2008 08:31:42 +0100, Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marwan Boustany wrote: As it happens the graphics are large, taking up, lengthwise about 40% of the page. And they tend to need to be where i put them for the most part. Fo

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I myself didn't understand why Uwe ;-) Hum... that was a typo of course, I meant: I myself didn't understand it, Uwe. Abdel

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I myself didn't understand why Uwe ;-) It is because he. He what? This thrad is becoming surrealistic :-) Abdel.

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

Uwe Stöhr wrote: Marwan Boustany schrieb: Peace, Nice joke. Just FYI 'Salam' in Arabic real meaning is 'Peace'. But that's the word Arabic people uses to say hello. Salam, Abdel.

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

Marwan Boustany wrote: As it happens the graphics are large, taking up, lengthwise about 40% of the page. And they tend to need to be where i put them for the most part. For dual side document, my experience is that, when a graphic is large (and 40% of the page height is certainly large enoug

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

Marwan Boustany wrote: On Mon, 19 May 2008 22:12:57 +0100, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marwan Boustany schrieb: Peace, Nice joke. It was not a joke, if I wanted to joke I could say, " What is the difference between a store and a stohr?" and someone else would say "what?", the

Re: Using lyx on the windows command line

Tim Michelsen wrote: Using lyx on the windows command line Hello, I'd like to automatize the PDF-generation an publication of my Lyx-documents. I there I way that allows me to run lyx.exe from command line and having it convert a file to a PDF using pdflatex? I am looking into something like:

Re: Appendix and document structure

Tim Michelsen wrote: Hello, I have a question concerning document structure. I am using the KOMA script report document class and want to have the following structure: Executive Summary (Section*) Part I Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Part II Chapter 3 Annex A But in my Lyx TOC outline on the

Re: Bogus responses to my [EMAIL PROTECTED] posts

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Le 6 mai 08 à 22:18, Abdelrazak Younes a écrit : I see that too. JMarc, is the user list also handled by Mate? In which case maybe he could erase this account? I forwarded your message to Mate's super

Re: Bogus responses to my [EMAIL PROTECTED] posts

Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Since May 1, 2008, every time I post to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, I get what looks like an autoresponder email from [EMAIL PROTECTED], telling me to check their FAQ and then if that doesn't help to submit a trouble ticket. Could someone please unsubscribe [EMAIL PROT

Re: slow typing in lyx-1.5.3

jos wrote: Steve Litt wrote: http://www.troubleshooters.cxm/linux/lyx/compile_1_5.htm As far as 1.5.3, I'm running a self-compiled (not from a package) LyX-1.5.3 on my Mandriva 2007 equipped Athlon XP2600+ with 1.5GB RAM and plenty of disk space, and I have no latency between keypress and

Re: Where should this be reported.......?

M-L wrote: I get this message when I try to open a recent or any document in LyX, but am not certain where it should be sent. To the Debian maintainer or to someone programming LyX? Both, I guess. The devel list is lyx-devel AT lists.lyx.org. Are you using LyX with the newest Qt4.4? If yes th

Re: Oh god!

Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 25 April 2008 05:07, Glen Whitehead wrote: Thank you everyone for your replies :-) I am so relieved (after throwing up). The error was being returned by bibtex and was nothing serious 0_o Good! Prevent future occurrence. Create a shellscript or batch file to back

Re: Gentoo future

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After being a user (for at least a year each) of Redhat, Suse, Debian I finally went to Gentoo and intend to stick to it. What I like most: - I had to reinstall only once, when I changed my computer. That's great ! Experience has taught me that, should a new version be i

Re: LyX and Scientific Word/Workplace

Ken wrote: Hi. There is a Wiki page on importing Scientific Workplace (SWP) documents into LyX: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/ImportingFromSWP but I can not seem to find any information on import a LyX document into SWP. I love using LyX but my co-author uses Scientific Word/Workplace. I don't want

Re: Banner, Splash Screen, Logo, Mascot, Name, oh my!

Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote: Guys, don't you believe your "investing" way too much time in this line of "problems"? :) It's for the first time in ten years or so. So that's a relatively minor portion of the developers time. It's also spring cleaning time

Re: Need Urgent Help

Liviu Andronic wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Ankur Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: without the equations. But I cannot export a pdf or dvi, when I copy the equations into the .lyx file. Could not say whether this would lead anywhere, but how exactly did you enter the equations (us

Re: Spellchecker for LyX doesn't work as well as expected

Charles de Miramon wrote: G. Milde wrote: On 12.03.08, Dominik Böhm wrote: I just installed aspell German to use it with LyX. ... In German you cannot compound arbitrary words to new words. ... So, for German this compound setting seems to be pretty useless. hunspell seems to work bette

Re: LyX discussion boards?

Maximilian Wollner wrote: Hello everybody, Somehow, I find it difficult to use mailing lists, maybe I am a too young computer and internet user but I can not see a single advantage. So I tried to look around for LyX discussion boards but can't find any. Do you know of any? Or is there any po

Re: short title

jean beney wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Is it possible in LyX to define a short book title? Another option would be to make your title shorter and make use of subtitle. Unfortunately, this option does not seem to exist in LyX. Which document class are you using? Book koma-script has

Re: How do you do an appendix the right way?

Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, How does one do an appendix the right way. I want it to show up, at the same level as chapters, in the table of contents. But I want it to say "Appendix A: SSH Example" rather than "Chapter 13: Appendix A: SSH Example". What environment to I use for the Appendix tit

Re: short title

jean beney wrote: Hello, Is it possible in LyX to define a short book title? When I am on the book title, the "short title" button is disabled. The class I work with has been built from book and it puts the book title in the top margin of even pages instead of the chapter name. Another opti

Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution

rgheck wrote: William R. Buckley wrote: I have need for the LNCS layout, and am having trouble using this with LyX. You will perhaps like to know that my prior experience with any TeX is zero. In the past, I have used WYSIWYG systems (Ventura Publisher is my first choice, though I am also pa

Re: Adding space to end of sentence adds spaces inside character styles

Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just had a situation with two character style insets inside a sentence. When I add spaces or other characters at the end of the sentence, spaces or other characters are added inside the insets. I'm using 1.5.3. You can see this behavior with the attached spacebug.

Re: Missing Toolbar

Ben Blamey wrote: Hi, using version 1.5.4 on windows XP. I remember for a few months when I first installed Lyx there was a toolbar with icons that exported pdf, ps etc. But its disappeared and I see nowhere to get it back again. I presume it is a config file somewhere? How about menu Vi

Re: LyX mac customized icon

Bennett Helm wrote: That said, I'm certainly not opposed to changing the icon, especially to one that better evokes what LyX is -- which is not a scientific word processor but a structured document processor. But I do think we should tend to be conservative in this case: having the icon of your

Re: Navigation toolbar

Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Nicolás wrote: Hi! When I use the outline to navigate quickly from one section of a document to another, I miss a "Go Back" feature that would allow me to navigate back to the exact point in the document where the cursor was before I clicked on an i

Re: Navigation toolbar

Nicolás wrote: Hi! When I use the outline to navigate quickly from one section of a document to another, I miss a "Go Back" feature that would allow me to navigate back to the exact point in the document where the cursor was before I clicked on an item in the outline. You can use bookmarks:

Re: lyx on solaris9

Richard Heck wrote: nuncio wrote: I would like to load lyx in solaris9 on sun OS. is it a painful business ? . If it doesnt go well with solaris, as an alternative I would like to know the best supported unix/linux versions for lyx. I seem to remember that there were some issues with th

Re: Two notes

onlyforum onlyforum wrote: Hi, all I knew Lyx only yesterday and I used it in the previous hours today (I use Windows Vista). The program is a beautiful surprise for me because I do not like to remember orders and write them in command lines to get Latex documents. Thanks, team of Lyx. You are

Re: Click in the scrollbar doesn't advance enough

David Hewitt wrote: Abdelrazak Younes-2 wrote: Clicking in the LyX scrollbar doesn't advance the LyX screen such that the bottom line is now the top. Sometimes it gets close, and sometimes you need to click the scrollbar 2 or 3 times to advance one screenful. There's a lot of

Re: Click in the scrollbar doesn't advance enough

rgheck wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Clicking in the LyX scrollbar doesn't advance the LyX screen such that the bottom line is now the top. Sometimes it gets close, and sometimes you need to click the scrollbar 2 or 3 times to advance one screenful. There's a lot of scrollbar weirdness

Re: Display formula numbering IN Lyx document

Kane Kano wrote: Hello everbody, I am working on physics thesis and I would like to know how I could display the number of formerly used equations so that I do not always have to view the pdf-file if I want to refer to a certain equation. You should use labels for that instead of numbering.

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

Steve Litt wrote: How much backward compatibility? Here's my belief: Age of tools when distro is created: 6 months Age of distro when installed: 4 months Time between distro upgrades 24 months - Desireable backward compatibility:

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

G. Milde wrote: On 21.02.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Actually the INSTALL file has been cleaned up a lot for 1.5.4, see attached. May I propose a small patch for improved clarity? Sure, thanks. Abdel.

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

Pavel Sanda wrote: Deleting and re-extracting the source tree did the trick. So the steps to cure the problem turned out to be: Good to hear. Steve, if you think that README & INSTALL files put you somewhere in the wrong direction, the best you can do is to send us the corrections. Actuall

Re: Version Control

James Mansion wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: If you mean the old RCS support then no (which we should probably ditch). It was actually - I was hoping there was a hidden configuration option somewhere. No, unfortunately. Should be easy to implement if you know a bit of C++ ;-) Abdel.

Re: Grapics not shown in Lyx

Mario Braun wrote: Hello everybody, i´ve recently upgraded to Lyx Version 1.5.3 on Mac OS X 10.5.2 For some reason Lyx doesn´t show the graphics I included in my documents. When I run Lyx to create a pdf file they appear in the pdf-document though. what did I do wrong? Verify that ImageMag

Re: Version Control

James Mansion wrote: Is it possible to get LyX to use my Subversion system for version control? If you mean the old RCS support then no (which we should probably ditch). But the LyX format is perfectly diff-able as it is a plain text format and that is all you need IMHO. I never had a merge c

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

Steve Litt wrote: In hindsight, I'm not going to disagree with you, always assuming it would have taken extra work to leave xforms in. My concern was more with the choice of 4.1.5 as a minimum rather than earlier 4.x (I actually got it working with 4.1.4). I've promised to keep out of this t

Re: New nice article about LyX among other things

Abdelrazak Younes wrote: David Hewitt wrote: http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/2008/02/applications-are-open-source-too.html Could someone put it in the wiki/webpage? Gladly... do you have a preference for where it should go? I just browsed around and didn't see an obvious locatio

Re: New nice article about LyX among other things

David Hewitt wrote: http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/2008/02/applications-are-open-source-too.html Could someone put it in the wiki/webpage? Gladly... do you have a preference for where it should go? I just browsed around and didn't see an obvious location. It actually seems like it might

Re: Mathed completion popup

James Sutherland wrote: Does this also work for normal text editing mode? I have longed for a emacs-style word completing utility in LyX! It appears so yes :-) Abdel. Am 19.02.2008 um 21:38 schrieb Stefan Schimanski: > ... and am on the way to implement completion for the text mode as well.

Re: Mathed completion popup

Martin Görg wrote: Hello Hellmut Weber, on 2/20/2008 you wrote: Great form of documentation for the work you have done, my compliments A small progress report of the patch: I made it very generic now and am on the way to implement completion for the text mode as well. You can see a tiny scr

New nice article about LyX among other things

http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/2008/02/applications-are-open-source-too.html Could someone put it in the wiki/webpage? Abdel.

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

deedee wrote: The only other issue I'm aware of I believe someone already mentioned. You have to make sure that the devel- files are the same as the regular ones; just as some software that requires kernel-headers to install from source, the kernel-headers have to the same as the current kerne

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2008 02:01, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Then there's the fact that some of us have dialup, and some in rural areas are years from getting broadband. The "just upgrade your qt" suggestion could be a day's downloadi

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

Steve Litt wrote: Yeah, that's the way to get LyX users -- tell em if they're not willing to upgrade the very vitals of their OS so that the developers can use the latest and greatest Qt instead of providing compatibility with a couple year old version (Qt 4 came out summer 2005, but Qt 4.2 is

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2008 02:01, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Then there's the fact that some of us have dialup, and some in rural areas are years from getting broadband. The "just upgrade your qt" suggestion could be a day's downloadi

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: In the case of Steve, his problem was clearly something he could have resolved by himself without questioning our choice of development tool. Well, anybody can at least question our choices. This does not mean t

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: No offense intended Steve but you are obviously confused with version numbers etc. I even suspect that you didn't even fully read the README and INSTALL that come with the source. As an end-user, either you wa

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Feb 19, 2008 4:07 PM, Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JOHN CULLETON wrote: on recommending Lyx to TEX newbies. If someone can cite a version of Lyx that runs without tears on the latest stable version of Slack (12) then I may give it a try

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

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

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

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

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

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

Re: Memory use

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

Re: Memory use

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

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

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

Re: Promote/demote entire branches.

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

Re: LyX install on Fedora

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

Re: LyX install on Fedora

Milen Ivanov wrote: From what I can see so far, LyX on Linux is clearly faster than LyX on Windows. I'd be interested in a more detailed comparison about the speed. Abdel.

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

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

Re: keyboard shortcuts

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

Re: Alt-space on Windows?

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

Re: keyboard shortcuts

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

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

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

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

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

Re: keyboard shortcuts

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

Re: keyboard shortcuts

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

Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner

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

Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner

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

Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner

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

Re: fun poll: your linux distro

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

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