Re: right-click vs. double-click

2006-01-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Hello Nusret, If we you are willing to help with the development of LyX, there are plenty to do. I suggest that you read some of the lyx-devel archive (try the excellent gname news interface: gmane.editors.lyx.devel). I too would like to have context menu inside lyx but this feature would need

Re: cursor size

2006-01-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Rafael Perez Pascual a écrit : I am using lyx on Debian Linux, the cursor is a one pixel line very dificut to see, is it possible to have a larger cursor? Thanks Rafael Perez For Qt frontend at least, this is hard-coded in src/frontends/qt2/qscreen.C. At line 79, in member function

Re: cursor size

2006-01-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Abdelrazak Younes a écrit : Rafael Perez Pascual a écrit : I am using lyx on Debian Linux, the cursor is a one pixel line very dificut to see, is it possible to have a larger cursor? Thanks Rafael Perez For Qt frontend at least, this is hard-coded in src/frontends/qt2/qscreen.C

Re: cursor size

2006-01-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Abdelrazak Younes a écrit : Abdelrazak Younes a écrit : Rafael Perez Pascual a écrit : I am using lyx on Debian Linux, the cursor is a one pixel line very dificut to see, is it possible to have a larger cursor? Thanks Rafael Perez For Qt frontend at least, this is hard-coded in src

Re: right-click vs. double-click

2006-01-27 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
. It is not finished yet but it is usable. Bye, Abdel. Regards, Nusret --- Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Nusret, If we you are willing to help with the development of LyX, there are plenty to do. I suggest that you read some of the lyx-devel archive (try the excellent gname

Re: LaTeX2html with Windows

2006-02-06 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Dear Uwe, I have noticed and reported in lyx-devel this problem with htlatex and proposed as a work-around to default the temp directory to something without space (mail reproduced below), what do you think? It would be very nice for my colleagues if your next version would support htlatex.

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jose' Matos a écrit : On Friday 17 February 2006 07:55, John Pye wrote: Hi there, Can anyone tell me if there is an up-to-date HOWTO somewhere for using Lyx for DocBook output of software user's manuals? No, that has been in my TODO list for a long time. :-( In particular, I want to be

Re: software manuals using Lyx

2006-02-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
John Pye a écrit : Hi Abdel, You suggested exporting HTML then importing that to the CHM tool from MS. That is what i would plan to do, but note that one needs various support files for using the index feature, and for creating the navigation hierarchy on the left hand side of the CHM window.

Re: Uneasy coexistence of 1.3.7 and 1.4.0pre2 (Windows)

2006-03-06 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Paul A. Rubin a écrit : Note to beta testers: I installed 1.4.0pre2 parallel to 1.3.7 (Win XP Pro), and when 1.4.0 rewrote my preferences file, all the viewer settings were vaporized. No big deal to get them back, once the defibrillator brought *me* back. The solution is to use the -userdir

Lyx-trunk configure fails

2006-03-06 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Hello, Any time I try to configure, it fails with this: checking types of arguments for select... int,int *,struct timeval * ./configure: line 35276: syntax error near unexpected token `s/^\\([' ./configure: line 35276: ` s/^\\([_$as_cr_alnum]*_cv_[_$as_cr_alnum]*\\)=\\(.*\\)/\\1=\\2/p' I

Re: Lyx-trunk configure fails

2006-03-06 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jose' Matos a écrit : On Monday 06 March 2006 11:40, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Hello, Any time I try to configure, it fails with this: Hi Abdel, wrong list? ;-) Oups, sorry. Will send it again to the right list this time ;-) Abdel.

Re: [Announce] LyX version 1.4.0

2006-03-08 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : It looks good. Small matter. Indeed, a very tiny matter. I have circumstances when I want to supress the toolbar. I found no way in the Tools - Preferences menu to do any customization of visible tools. Hello Mark, try to right-click on the toolbar area. Abdel.

Re: Question regarding Lyx 1.4.0 preferences

2006-03-08 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Matthew Cohen a écrit : Lyx 1.4 looks great so far. I have a few related questions (and apologies if they have already been asked): Is it possible to save toolbar preferences? That is, if I want to have the math and table toolbars always on, is there any way to change my preferences such

Re: [Announce] LyX version 1.4.0

2006-03-11 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Holger Lillqvist a écrit : On Mar 8, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I have circumstances when I want to supress the toolbar. I found no way in the Tools - Preferences menu to do any customization of visible tools. Hello Mark, try to right-click

Re: [Announce] LyX version 1.4.0

2006-03-11 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit : Abdelrazak == Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Abdelrazak Her... But right-clicking again? Work here. If this Abdelrazak doesn't work for you, please send a bug report to Abdelrazak lyx-devel. I guess there is nothing to right-click on anymore

Re: Win32: Access server-based files

2006-03-14 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Nico Jabin a écrit : Hello, I'm trying to access some files that are located on a server (\\Server01\dir1\dir2\file) and I have not been able to access them. Is there help? Map it to a drive letter. Abdel Nico

Re: LyX Mac 1.4.0 Performance Issue

2006-03-17 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Marc J. Driftmeyer a écrit : I'm running on an iBook G4 1Ghz with 640MB of RAM. The performance was definitely not going to match Yaron's, but may I make a suggestion to all the fellow OS X users? Download Qt4.1.1 open source Trolltech tools. I can give a configure setup that will configure,

Re: comment box?

2006-04-15 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Juergen Spitzmueller a écrit : Jeremy C. Reed wrote: [...] 2) When I click on one comment box and then scroll away and then click on another comment box, then it jumps me back to the previous comment I was looking at. My work-around is to click on some regular text content around it first.

Re: comments

2006-04-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Also, I don't read these lists, but I assume that someone has noted that there doesn't seem to be any way to insert vertical space, at least in version 1.4.1 for Windows. (The commands used to be on the Layout|Paragraph menu.) Menu Insert-Special

Re: PortableLyX?

2006-04-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Sam Lewis a écrit : LyX works extremely well under the Windows operating system! Outside the office away from the ones own computer, I've been using LyX 1.3.3-Win32 on a USB stick. It works extremely well and enables me to access, edit and spell check my fieldnotes, in visiting

Re: PortableLyX?

2006-04-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Sam Lewis a écrit : [...] AFAIK, the problem is not within LyX but in Aspell. Indeed Aspell dictionaries are not relocatable (under Windows); this means that they must be installed in the same path where they have been compiled. One needs to investigate Aspell source code as to know if this

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-11 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Gerhard Schaffer a écrit : I just installed msys and started sh.exe in the msys\1.0\bin directory and it shows exactly the same error message: P:\Utility\Latex\msys\1.0\binsh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\Latex\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe:

Re: lyx export to HTML Hangs forever.

2006-05-12 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Sadat Chowdhury a écrit : Windows XP Professional. I installed LyX 1.4.1 as instructed. Everything works great...exceptexport to HTML just hangs forever. Anyone experience anything similar? There is a bug in htlatex with path containing space. There is a work around that that should

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jan Peters wrote: Thanks, Georg. I knew about the possibility of adding symbols to the toolbar and the little math toolbar is nice. However, what would be needed are buttons where I can click and, e.g., get all symbols as pull-down menu (see the SWP-LyX comparison at

Re: Confused about Lyx's goals -- isn't this supposed to increase productivity?

2006-06-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jeremy Wells wrote: I suppose what I'm hoping for is someone to say 1) no, you're wrong, because...; 2) wait x number of years and we'll be there; or 3) if you don't like coding, use a different tool. 1) You're wrong somewhat... People in this list are really advanced user. I've been using

[Patch] GUI cleanup step 2

2006-06-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Hello, Here is the next step on my GUI API cleanup. Only qt4 for now. Committed to the younes branch. Comments welcome. Abdel. Log: * BufferView::BufferView(LyXView * owner, lyx::frontend::WorkArea * workArea) - now need a valid WorkArea on construction - but no more need for width and

Re: [Patch] GUI cleanup step 2

2006-06-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Oups sorry, wrong list. Abdel.

Re: PortableLyX?

2006-06-30 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Angus Leeming wrote: Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now, having experienced the latest version of LyX, I've tested 1.4.1 on a USB stick. All good, if there wouldn't be the aspell dilemma! As LyX is compiled against libaspell.a and expects to find aspell dictionaries and data

Re: Float:Fig Won't Close

2006-06-30 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Anders Dahnielson wrote: I don't know if the same issue, but after scrolling using the scrollwheel on the mouse the cursor will jump when I try to click on any note or footnote in the document. Yes, that's the same issue (fixed). Yes but for now, as a work

Re: Easing the editing/correction of LyX documents

2006-07-07 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Peter Bowyer wrote: Hi, I am one of the people who cannot finds editing documents hard on screen - I end up printing a copy and then working through it with a pen, making changes and restructuring, and then typing the changes up. I didn't find this a problem when using Word because what

Re: How to avoid Macro pop-up?

2007-11-05 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
sebastian guttenberg wrote: I sent the following reply to Brian a while ago. Forgot to carbon-copy it to the list. Please, the problem is still open, and I am sure that there is a simple solution. If somebody knows, please let me know! Hi Brian! Thanks a lot for the quick answer, but I'm

Re: How to avoid Macro pop-up?

2007-11-06 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
sebastian guttenberg wrote: How are you going to modify the macro argument if the macro is not expanded? And what do you mean by there seems to be a way to avoid that? Abdel. Hi Abdel. I just want to modify the arguments and not the macro itself and therefore it is enough that the arguments

Re: How to avoid Macro pop-up?

2007-11-06 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
sebastian guttenberg wrote: Anyway, the math macro architecture has been basically rewritten in the development version; it is now much more powerful thanks to Stefan Schimanski. So I encourage you to try this version and provide us with comments on the devel list. That's very interesting

Re: Issues with LyX

2007-11-07 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Nov 8, 2007 12:20 PM, Salim Namik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. I create a lot of diagrams in MS Word and I to insert them in LyX, but when I do, the quality of the figure is rubbish!! what is the best format for diagrams made by MS Word? I'd say postscript or PDF.

Re: using keyboard for mouse scrolling

2007-11-16 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
sebastian guttenberg wrote: Hello all! This question is probably not only related to lyx: I am looking for a possibility to use the keyboard for scrolling. I mean the type of scrolling, where the cursor remains, where it is. While typing in lyx, I would like to deaktivate my touchpad, but still

Re: using keyboard for mouse scrolling

2007-11-16 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: sebastian guttenberg wrote: Hello all! This question is probably not only related to lyx: I am looking for a possibility to use the keyboard for scrolling. I mean the type of scrolling, where the cursor remains, where it is. While typing in lyx, I would like

Re: search and replace noun style

2007-11-23 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
William Seager wrote: Hi all. Does anyone know if there is a way to search a document for a certain word and replace it with the same word but in noun style (small caps)? Open the lyx file in a text editor and search and replace the word xxx with the following (on three new lines): \noun on

Re: Child Documents Document Outline

2007-11-24 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Tobias Krause wrote: Hi, I just started to use Child Documents and discovered that the document outline of the main document includes the chapters of child documents after clicking Edit in the child document dialog once. Is there a way to avoid this clicking? Can I tell LyX to include all

[Fwd: Re: Child Documents Document Outline]

2007-11-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Looks like Tobias forgot to put the list in copy... Tobias Krause wrote: Hi Abdel, Not directly unfortunately but here's a trick to do that: enable Instant Preview in the Preference settings. thank your for our answer! Unfortunately it's not exactly what I'm looking for because did not

Re: Feature Request: Show the title in closed floats

2007-12-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Daniel Lohmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As we are already on it :-) It also would be really nice, if 1) there is an opportunity to specify the *default* display for *new* inset, preferably even customizable per inset-type. 2) the document-specific state of each

Re: Spell check on the fly?

2007-12-11 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
bigblop wrote: Is there any chance that LyX in the future will support spell check on fly, where each misspelled word is underlined with a red line in the editor if its incorrectly spelled? When/if someone feels like implementing this, there might be a chance yes. But nobody ever felt this

Re: Spell check on the fly?

2007-12-12 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
ANTONIO JOSE GUIRAO SANCHEZ wrote: Dear all, Maybe for people who writes in his native language, such a tool is a stupidity. However, for people like me who writes in English in spite of the fact that his native language is Spanish -or other-, such a tool is good since it is rather

Re: LyX QuickLook Plugin

2007-12-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
mike c wrote: I actually meant to elaborate in my original post, but it got sent half-finished thanks to gmail and a bad key combo. On Dec 14, 2007 3:53 PM, Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nonetheless, it looks like adding Quick Look support is relatively easy -- if you don't expect the

Re: Hebrew on Mac OS X

2007-12-18 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: On 12/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It means that the jesus font (an hebraic font) is unavailable on your system. I guess that you have to install the hebrew package on your latex distribution to get a set of hebrew fonts. I just installed

Re: multiple views of the same buffer

2007-12-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Christopher Reeve wrote: Hi, I'm using LyX 1.52 on a mac os 10.4. On the wiki it says that with version 1.5 I should be able to have more than one view of the same buffer. http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX15#toc3 This would be very useful to me. Could anyone tell me how to do this? File

Re: multiple views of the same buffer

2007-12-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Christopher Reeve wrote: Thanks, Very clever, just maybe not that intuitive. Well, it is in line with Firefox for example. But I would personally prefer to put it in a new Window menu like in MSWord. What would you suggest? I guess it will all change again with the next big updates in 1.6.

Re: multiple views of the same buffer

2007-12-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Christopher Reeve wrote: Yes, I guess it is sort of in line with Firefox. Only with Firefox you have literally a new window where you can have a new set of tabs. What LyX is actually doing is cloning the current window, rather than creating a new one which no other software I know is able to

Re: Some LyX 1.5.3 issues (OS-X specific?)

2007-12-22 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Daniel Lohmann wrote: Hi LyX folks, On a longer train journey I had the opportunity to actually do some work with LyX on my new Mac. While doing so, I observed a couple of issues. Some of them might be related to the fact that I am still using it in a very Windows-like way, especially with

Re: LyX on Mac OS X - installed prerequisites but still can't get output?

2007-12-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Faith Anne Scott wrote: Hi all! Sorry for the dumb question, but here goes... My installation of LyX says it doesn't know how to write PDF files - what do I need to do? Try the menu Tools - Reconfigure and then restart. Abdel.

Re: LyX on Mac OS X - installed prerequisites but still can't get output?

2007-12-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Faith Anne Scott wrote: I don't have that menu. Under Tools, all I have is Spellchecker, Count Words, and TeX Information. If that is the case then we have a bigger problem with your installation and I'm afraid I cannot help you much. I'll let the MacOS experts comment on this. Please try

Re: Slow input with cross-reference window open

2007-12-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jens Noeckel wrote: On Dec 25, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Jens Noeckel wrote: Hi, on Mac OS X 10.4 with LyX 1.5.3 (Intel), text input in the main window slows down to a crawl when editing a large document while at the same time the cross-reference window is left open. It's not noticeable with small

Re: Slow input with cross-reference window open

2007-12-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jens Noeckel wrote: On Dec 26, 2007, at 12:56 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Jens Noeckel wrote: On Dec 25, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Jens Noeckel wrote: Hi, on Mac OS X 10.4 with LyX 1.5.3 (Intel), text input in the main window slows down to a crawl when editing a large document while at the same

Re: fun poll: your linux distro

2007-12-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Bob Lounsbury wrote: I've personally been experimenting with all the distros I can. Currently I'm on Slackware, but qt4 failed to build so I haven't been able to get LyX on yet. I also have an iBook running Debian Etch with 1.5.3. I must say too that 1.5.3 has GREATLY increased the typing speed

Re: fun poll: your linux distro

2007-12-30 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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 occured

Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner

2007-12-31 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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

Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner

2008-01-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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

2008-01-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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 thing missing in its

Re: keyboard shortcuts

2008-01-09 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
[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: keyboard shortcuts

2008-01-09 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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

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

2008-01-09 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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

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

2008-01-09 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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

Re: keyboard shortcuts

2008-01-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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 :-)

Re: Alt-space on Windows?

2008-01-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
[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 opens

Re: keyboard shortcuts

2008-01-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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: Feature Request - new file command from insert file dialog box.

2008-01-10 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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

Re: LyX install on Fedora

2008-01-18 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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: Promote/demote entire branches.

2008-01-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters

2008-02-05 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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-quotedblquote-insert single \bind ~S-C-quotedblself-insert \ to \bind

Re: Memory use

2008-02-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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: Memory use

2008-02-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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

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

2008-02-14 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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 again

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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 wait for your

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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 that we

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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 downloading over a phone line

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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?

2008-02-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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 downloading over a phone line

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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

New nice article about LyX among other things

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/2008/02/applications-are-open-source-too.html Could someone put it in the wiki/webpage? Abdel.

Re: Mathed completion popup

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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

Re: Mathed completion popup

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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: New nice article about LyX among other things

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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 location

Re: New nice article about LyX among other things

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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

Re: Version Control

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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

Re: Grapics not shown in Lyx

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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

Re: Version Control

2008-02-20 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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.

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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?

2008-02-22 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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: Display formula numbering IN Lyx document

2008-02-22 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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

Re: Click in the scrollbar doesn't advance enough

2008-02-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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: Click in the scrollbar doesn't advance enough

2008-02-27 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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 scrollbar

Re: Two notes

2008-02-27 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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: lyx on solaris9

2008-02-27 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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

Re: Navigation toolbar

2008-02-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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: Navigation toolbar

2008-02-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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 item in the outline

Re: LyX mac customized icon

2008-03-05 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
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

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