Re: Drawing of polynomials

2005-10-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 07:44:16AM +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote: I couldn't get it to compile trivially... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ gcc graf.cpp Unless you definitely know what you are doiung, use g++ to compile C++ code. Andre'

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 02:43:00PM -0500, William F. Adams wrote: On Nov 8, 2005, at 11:52 AM, Angus Leeming wrote: You have a strange definition of ``for free'', William. There are 295 files in the Qt frontend totalling some 27,000 lines of code. And that's neglecting the .ui files that

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 08:24:58AM +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote: The idea is that each frontend author is free to implement the dialogs as he wants. There is no contraint on their layout and/or text. But that's a bug, not a feature, right? We _should_ strive for uniformity. This would mean

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:54:30AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: Multi-platform? I have no idea - but the existing qt port is multiplatform so a port to another toolkit doesn't have to be. Indeed. And note that we get much better multi-platform support when using Qt alone than with any

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 06:37:52PM +0100, Gour wrote: I could also say: gnome, gnome-vfs, internationalization (I18N), localization (L10N), OS X is there, cairo back-end, win32, and lgpl license, i.e. not depending on trolltech... What's wrong with Qt's GPL? Andre'

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-11 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 07:45:00PM +0100, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: So it is possible to port to other tookits without to much work That is wrong and does not get better by repeating it. Supporting yet another toolkit is a significant amount of work, and the GUII framework makes using toolkits

Re: mission lyx ...

2005-12-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 10:03:50AM -0500, Bennett Helm wrote: Note that compilation will take hours -- especially Qt. However, you don't need to compile the Qt tutorial or examples. (I believe you can simply delete those directories -- or, better, move them aside -- before compiling;

Re: Math mode ERT problems

2005-12-04 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 09:40:55AM +, Drop Box wrote: [If that was my real name I'd seriously consider sueing my mother...] ERT in mathed seems to have a few issues. It surely has. There is no such thing like a TeX parser other than TeX itself... And TeX has the benefit of operating on

Re: [announce] sixth release of LyXWinInstaller

2006-01-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 02:24:58PM -0800, Stephen Harris wrote: Why doesn't English have the default of C:\Programs? Is it because C:\program files adheres to basic Windows guidelines? No, certainly not. Just because Word pioneered filenames with spaces doesn't mean that practice should be

Re: copying and pasting a LyX environment? (like Word's Format Painter)

2006-01-09 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:22:48AM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Helge Hafting writes: I don't know how this format painter works, but here is something I imagine could be useful: * Mark the part of the document to be changed - possibly all * Use a menu (or keypress) to change heading

Re: copying and pasting a LyX environment? (like Word's Format Painter)

2006-01-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 02:26:48PM +0100, Abdel wrote: This functionality could be implemneted in the Navigate menu in the Qt frontend: Make the menu a list view, allowm multiple selection, create and connect actions to movce things a level in or out. I was thinking about modifying the TOC

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX

2006-01-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:11:39AM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Paul A. Rubin writes: 1. (This is the only major issue.) Our letterhead includes logos on both the left side of the paper and along the top. Dealing with the top is not a problem, but for the life of me I cannot find a way

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.7 is released

2006-01-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:45:03AM +0100, Sven Schreiber wrote: One question about that: am I right in assuming that Uwe's Windows installer of 1.3.7 will bundle tex2lyx so that proper (meaning non-relyx) latex import becomes a reality with 1.3.7? (That is basically the only missing feature

Re: 1.3.7 and 1.4

2006-01-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:59:37AM +, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Hi I just wondered if anyone knew the timescale for 1.4 release. I know that 1.4pre3 has been available since christmas and this is nearly the final version. The reason I ask is that with the release of 1.3.7 I have to

Re: Business letter (on letterhead) template for LyX - simple _working_ minipage solution

2006-01-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:49:44PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: Latex does not seem to offer a proper way of aligning boxes by the box top, but there is a simple workaround. TeX offers everything ... Except undoing paragraph breaks. SCNR. Andre'

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.7 is released

2006-01-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 03:21:41PM +, Enrico Forestieri wrote: Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Be cautious. tex2lyx is not perfect when importing LaTeX and I doubt any tool ever will be. But it should not be worse than reLyX. It can be worse than reLyX. Try to import

Re: find equation labels in a lyx document

2006-01-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 11:18:23AM -0600, David Halpern wrote: I would like to be able to find equation labels, say eq:eq1, in a lyx document to check whether they are being referenced to in the text. How does one do this? I am not sure this is possible in LyX itself. But you can open the .lyx

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.7 is released

2006-01-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 10:59:29PM +, Enrico Forestieri wrote: Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a bugzilla entry for this? Here it is: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2234 Thanks. Andre'

Re: kerning of letters with hyphen not so great

2006-01-23 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 07:09:10PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: I must say that I am somewhat disappointed at the lack of kerning of letter combinations such as -W in the word non-Western. This is using the standard CM font. To get the hyphen to appear visually balanced in non-Western I am

Re: find equation labels in a lyx document

2006-01-25 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 01:50:13PM -0600, David Halpern wrote: Andre, Thanks, but I was hoping that lyx was an editor with this relatively simple capability. You are welcome to implement this relatively simple capability. This is about the way LyX got all the other simple capabilities...

Re: word-wrap and itemize

2006-01-25 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:46:42PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Thank you Todd and Johan for the further ideas. I think in my case, I don't want hyphenation, but I want latex to automatically wrap the word going into the margin to the next line AND justify the line to make up for the moved

Re: kerning of letters with hyphen not so great

2006-01-25 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 08:55:27PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Andre Poenitz writes: I'd guess it's almost impossible to get kerning right in all circumstances. That sounds like a NASA (space shuttle) answer. ;-) Now, if they'd paid me like a NASA engineer ... There can't be too many

Re: right-click vs. double-click

2006-01-25 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:44:15AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: Be aware that lyx runs on other platforms than windows, where double-clicks aren't used much. Not having double- clicks is a good thing, because they are bad user interface. Double-clicks fail too easily, is a lost cause for the

Re: [OT] Re: kerning of letters with hyphen not so great

2006-01-26 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 09:43:30PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Andre Poenitz writes: On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 08:55:27PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Andre Poenitz writes: I'd guess it's almost impossible to get kerning right in all circumstances. There can't be too many more than

Re: OT: Converter matrix to picture

2006-02-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 12:35:14PM +, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All This may be a bit out of topic. I have a matrix of ones and zeros with which I would like to produce a picture in such a way that the ones would be represented in black, say, and the zeros in yellow. Does somebody know of

Re: LyX is getting... very annoying.

2006-02-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:09:40AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: Marc D. wrote: I have created a rather large lyx file (all my course notes). In one section, I can't get it to work. I have reduced the problem to a minimum. There are 3 characters on my screen, in two lines. I get SIX errors

Re: Using XY packages

2006-02-17 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 07:35:14PM -0600, Stacia Hartleben wrote: Wow, I actually did get it to work, which is sad since the support is going away in 1.4! It will come back. If I had known that only a single person was actively using that thing I would not have removed it. Andre'

Re: How to convert letter to math symbol/font in 1.3+?

2006-02-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 03:45:16PM +1300, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: I recall that in 1.2 we could convert a ordinary letter to math font simply by selecting it and pressing cntl-M. In 1.3 it converts it into math mode, but leaves it in the original font. Is there an easy way to convert

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:36:01PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: ... how can I get this behavior with any word? Good question. Maybe Herbert or someone else can help. That's like the user calling the help desk because she cannot find the any key

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 10:58:38PM +0100, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Joerg Hau writes: Inserting ERT in the text is exactly the opposite of what I want to do. An example of what I am looking for: Open a document in LyX, write e.g. LyX is a kind of LaTeX frontend (upper/lowercase!), and go to

Re: lyx compatibility to MsWord etc

2006-02-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 08:50:45AM -0800, Tom Tom wrote: I have read something about lyx-latex-rtf-doc . This sounds not really promising, I guess all the layout will be lost?! Any ideas / experience with something like that? Yes. It basically does not work properly. However, as your

Re: lyx compatibility to MsWord etc

2006-02-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:09:48AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Andre Poenitz wrote: However, as your professors aren't supposed to mess around with your thesis, producing a .pdf should be completely sufficient. Andre', Who are you kidding? Thesis/dissertation

Re: Possible feature enhancement?

2006-03-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 02:17:20PM +0100, Nicholas Allen wrote: I am surprised that Lyx can generate invalid latex output. I would have thought that it could make sure the user did not create invalid documents. For example, if I am in a section header and I insert a table then this makes no

Re: subject

2006-03-27 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 01:42:10PM +0900, Ride_Ride_Ride wrote: I'm sorry that my question(s) is not associated with Lyx itself, but I have another question about this Lyx ML. Why this ML doesn't use Reply-to? Because this is generally a bad idea. Therer are pointers in the archives

Re: some problems with 1.4.1 for windows

2006-04-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 09:40:04AM +0200, Olivier Ripoll wrote: I have entered the path within double quotes. spaces in filenames and paths are 100% legitimate in linux and windows and very common on Windows. They are 100% pain in the ***, on both Linux and Windows, because some programs

Re: Simple question - howto enter macro w/args

2006-04-25 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 11:24:36AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: In Lyx 1.3.x, you can do this by typing \[ and then \{. Oddly enough, escaping them yourself makes Lyx not escape them! We had a full iteration of this going back and forth between 'do waht LaTeX does' and 'do what the naive user

Re: Presenting LyX in a local TV

2006-04-27 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:32:44AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: Some ideas: Tell about LyX strengths: [...] * LyX is also snappy to work with, and doesn't crash. I wouldn't stress that point too much... Andre'

Re: Good Morning

2006-05-08 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:51:22PM +0200, Georg Baum wrote: Sarah Gray wrote: Hello, I have recently been given a laptop that runs Windows XP with Service Pack 2. I just downloaded LYX but I have a problem. When I attempt to open my documents from my CD, I get only a read only

Re: Good Morning

2006-05-09 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 02:59:43PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Andre == Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andre Which is a pretty stupid thing to do. Andre If I just want some minor changes to cutpaste someplace else Andre it is ridiculous to require a SaveAs first. You

Re: Error: Could not read configuration file

2006-05-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:59:51AM -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Sebastian Schetter wrote: Hello Paul! Great, it worked. Problem was in fact the not installed path variable. (C:\Programme\LyX141\bin on my system) Maybe it wasn't installed, because my Wind2k is configured in German?! So

Re: equation arrays

2006-05-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:23:03AM +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Ilya Soifer wrote: I want it to be a 3x3 array (so that A's are aligned '=''s are aligned and B+C's are aligned. In Lyx 1.3 it was sufficient to write A=B+C and then to Ctrl-ENTER somewhere in the middle of the formula to get such

Re: equation arrays

2006-05-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 10:04:20PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Andre == Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andre As I said: The current behaviour was implemented explicitly as Andre response to a very detailed user-request. Andre I don't like it particularily, but I don't like

Re: Some interesting comments from a TeX veteran

2006-05-30 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 07:35:21PM -0500, David Neeley wrote: I had an interesting note from a gentleman who has been using TeX for about twenty years. He edits and packages books and creates indexes for them as well as part of his publication services, using TeX every day in his work. He

Re: Layout copyright; was: Re: Sharing layout files

2006-06-17 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 08:36:09AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: In a related thread somebody mentioned GPL wouldn't be good because some people use LyX for commercial purposes. I'd imagine the only thing being sold are the pdf or paper output (please let me know if you think I'm wrong), and I'd

Re: Layout copyright; was: Re: Sharing layout files

2006-06-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 01:57:26PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 16 June 2006 11:50 am, you wrote: The real first question is whether a layout file can be covered by copyright to begin with. As I pointed out before, one good example is fonts. While their names can be copyrighted,

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

2006-06-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:21:44AM -0400, 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. It's not 1). Could be 2) for sufficiently large

Re: Copyrights of material contributed to the wiki (Was: Layout..)

2006-06-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:29:00AM +0200, Georg Baum wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do we choose BSD or GPL for the default? Out of habit I'd lean towards GPL, and also because that is what I'd expect if I never bothered to read the Copyrights page. I'd say GPL. I did not follow this

Re: minipage question

2006-06-22 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 05:18:13PM +0200, jouke hijlkema wrote: Hello all Is there a lyx way to have a minipage spanning multiple pages ?? There isn't even a LaTeX way. _mini_pages fit onto one page. Andre'

Re: Prouncing LyX - help with sound file

2006-07-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 05:16:12PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The pronounciation bit is pretty interesting though... It is also interesting how you Americans usually can't hear the difference between the vowel sound Swedes/Norwegians make when

Re: How to reset a character style

2006-09-04 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:51:51AM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I reset the character style to no formatting ? ATM it is a bit painful (undo or copy/paste), but we'll introduce a new method for dissolving insets (footnotes, character styles, comments

Re: disable removing empty lines when cursor is navigated away

2006-09-09 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 04:06:01PM -0400, Andrew Corrigan wrote: Thank you for the suggestion Sue. Although, unless I misunderstand, that solution isn't really sufficient for me. The specific problem I have with this behavior is that I'll often make a new line, choose its type (Lemma,

Re: Inkscape SVG and LyX

2006-09-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 02:23:28PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: An interesting approach may be (not only for inkscape) to allow lyx to function as a formula editor for other programs using the pipe mechanism. I don't know how difficult that would be to implement. Stand-alone mathed?

Re: diff within Lyx and OpenOffice with styles

2007-11-03 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 08:14:21PM -0300, Marcelo Acuña wrote: hello, a question rised in a free soft forum. I propposed latex/lyx and another person question: Why lyx/latex and not open office with styles? What I said about it? Anyhing but (La)TeX is awful at math typesetting. And

Re: How to avoid Macro pop-up?

2007-11-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
sebastian guttenberg wrote: math-macro justastupidexample 1, and then I enter in mathmode my new macro \justastupidexample test, then - whenever the cursor crosses the macro, it pops up and the whole stupid name of the macro becomes visible. This was a new (annoying) feature of 1.4 (or even

Re: How to avoid Macro pop-up?

2007-11-06 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 09:42:26AM +0200, sebastian guttenberg wrote: Guess what, the possibility was there all the time. It was called 'locking' and usually accessed by typing Ctrl-I. Hi Andre! Very nice that you reply! I was aware of Ctrl-I (actually I mentioned it just in my last post

Re: How to avoid Macro pop-up?

2007-11-06 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 05:07:37PM +0200, sebastian guttenberg wrote: Stefan has a personal version of 1.5 with the macro rework if you prefer that. It's available in: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/personal/sts/dynmacro Thanks again! Unfortunately I have no support for the

Re: [CfH] Reproduce problem with russian and spell check in Lyx on Linux

2007-11-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 07:14:51PM +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote: Hello, On 11/19/07, Sven Hoexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, as some of you might have noticed I'm one of the guys working on the LyX Debian packages and ATM I try to clear our to bugtracker so that we can submit the

Re: Live Latex Editing

2007-11-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 10:26:26AM +1100, Ryan Cross wrote: On Nov 25, 2007 8:39 AM, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Atakan Kubilay wrote: This is just a call for an added feature I have sorely felt the absence of: I want to be able to edit Latex code-not just preview it-while

Re: Tables - gap in borders

2007-11-28 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 07:29:24PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: Graham Griffiths wrote: I need to include math symbols in tables and when a superscript is present there is not enought clearance between the symbol and the cell top border. However, when I add a space to top of a line in a table

Re: edit lyx file in text editor

2007-11-29 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 11:38:31AM +, e-letter wrote: I looked at my (basic) lyx file in a text editor and it seems a simple structure of (custom?) latex type commands (e.g. \layout). They look similar, but it's not LaTeX. Reading the extended manual, I guess that you suggest I should

Re: Danke

2007-11-30 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 05:47:26PM +0100, Harald Scheffler wrote: Bravo für Lyx 152! ich schreibe gerade ein Buch - 1024 Seiten schon mit Lyx geschrieben - bravo! Es ist einfach eine Freude mit Lyx 152 zu schreiben - danke! Hoert man gerne ;-) Andre'

Re: howto compile lyx-1.5.3 without qt

2007-12-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 11:29:33AM +0100, Filippo Zangheri wrote: Hi, Hi Filippo. Sorry for the silly question, but I'm a newbie here. I'm trying to compile lyx-1.5.3 on a Debian Etch system. I don't have qt4 libtìrary installed and I don't want that. Sorry for the silly question: Why?

Re: Compose keys again

2007-12-31 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:32:57PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 31 December 2007 13:21, John Coppens wrote: Hi all. Just compiled installed 1.5.3 and I'm back to not being able to use the compose key. Compose is defined: ... keycode 115 = Super_L keycode 116 = Multi_key

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 12:18:05PM -0500, rgheck wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Gentoo would be an

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:04:43PM +, José Matos wrote: On Monday 14 January 2008 17:46:02 Steve Litt wrote: IIRC the Mandriva 2007 I use defaults to KDE and has lots and lots of KDE programs (I'm writing this on kmail), but my hatred of KDE is so profound that my first step was to

Re: qt 4 library not found

2008-02-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 02:12:19PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 18 February 2008 13:38, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Steve Litt wrote: I wish the error message would tell me exactly why it believes I don't have QT4 installed. Then I could fix the problem. Perhaps it's

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 04:39:20PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Well, after 2 hours I got libqt4-devel loaded, and a 30 minute make ended like this: make all-recursive make[6]: Entering directory `/home/slitt/junk/lyx-1.5.3/src/frontends/qt4' Making all in ui make[7]: Entering

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 05:54:30PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: UIC=/usr/lib/qt4/bin/uic ./configure --with-extra-prefix=/usr/lib/qt4 --with-qt4-dir=/usr/lib/qt4 --with-qt4-includes=/usr/lib/qt4/include --with-qt4-libraries=/usr/lib/qt4/lib There's btw no reason to actuall _install_ Qt, running

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 07:41:49PM -0500, 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 that could go down any time. I've been

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:55:21PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: I can't understand how/why LyX depends on kdelibs. LyX doesn't depend on KDE. Andre'

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 05:38:49PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 18 February 2008 17:07, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: To answer your Subject line: xforms has not been maintained in around four years. And, it was plain ugly. :-) Better

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 03:27:28PM -0800, 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. Surely Qt ate your outgoing mail. There's no way that this could be case of PEBKAC. Earth is flat,

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 01:54:26AM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: erm, this is the second time you mention qt 2.x.y, i previsouly thought its just typo and i wonder - on my distro there are only qt 3.3.8 and qt 4.3.2 available. you really mean 'upgrade to 2.2.3' ? - this seems to be some message

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:22:38AM +0100, 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

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 12:45:37PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: On Feb 19, 2008 11:06 AM, Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:55:21PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: I can't understand how/why LyX depends on kdelibs. LyX doesn't depend on KDE. Andre' Yes

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 01:38:31PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: Oh, please. The suspense is killing me. Did Steve succeed in building the LyX he wants? If not, lets help him do it. The troubles that were posted early on were common errors in configure/make stages of building software. I am

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 02:59:04PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: Thanks very much Paul, I have no time today, but tomorrow or the next day I'll delete the LyX source tree, re-extract the tarball, and try again now that libqt4-devel is installed. One thing I cannot do is upgrade from Qt-4.1.4

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:27:25AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2008 08:10, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. A Linux distribution might provide alternative means to QTDIR for specifying the qt4 dir. Actually, the variable we use

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:54:05PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: LyX makes great use of C++ Standard Template Library (STL). This means that gcc users will have to install the relevant libstdc++ library to be able to compile this version of LyX. I'd drop this paragraph. If at all it's the

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 04:48:43PM +, José Matos wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2008 16:24:30 Steve Litt wrote: So I'd add something like: WARNING!!! ALWAYS DELETE AND RESTORE YOUR LYX 1.5.3 SOURCE TREE AFTER A BLOWN ./CONFIGURE OR MAKE!!! And then add a sentence saying why.

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:09:12PM -0200, John Coppens wrote: On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:54:54 +0100 Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: key bindings

2008-02-24 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:42:28PM +0200, Miki Dovrat wrote: Hi, For some reason, the C-S-space and C-space bindings on my lyx 1.5.3 (windows) are still used by Windows and not by lyx. I am using the default (cua) bind file. Is the key actually deliverd to LyX or is Windows 'eating' it

Re: PDF to PowerPoint converter

2008-02-27 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:34:44AM +, Graham Smith wrote: Although, I have found a couple via google does anyone have experience of PDF to PowerPoint converters. I would prefer a Mac or multiplatform option, but Windows, or even Linux would do. Having now been using Beamer for a few

Re: Insert-minipage?

2008-03-04 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 04:37:17PM -0700, Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm using LyX-1.5.3 on Mandriva 2007 Linux. I just tried to insert a minipage into my LyX document. I went to the Insert menu and couldn't

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-03-04 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 03:42:25PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After what I went through, I'd recommend that someone strongarm ALL variables to the Qt4 values, and not leave anything to chance. The QT4* values are (contrary to Qt 3 ones

Re: LyX 1.5 crashes on startup

2008-03-04 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:27:23AM -0500, rgheck wrote: Jean-Marie Pacquet wrote: rgheck a écrit : Try running with -dbg init on the working installation. What's the next line? rh Adding minibuffer at position 0 0 is the last line on the working installation. OK, well, try comparing

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-03-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:42:01AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could you explain why? Qt 4 does not use any QT4* environment variables. No, this is our doing. But did qt3's qmake use QTDIR variables? Qt 3 relied in several places

Re: LyX mac customized icon

2008-03-05 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 11:05:03PM +0100, ailoan wrote: Hello, Hi. I am a young graphist and I choose your soft (LyX-Mac) to work on a project for fun. I saw your icon and try to suggest you one more customized. Feel free to use it in any project you see fit. They are in SVG format for

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

2008-03-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:21:11AM +0100, Dominik Böhm wrote: Hi there everyone, I just installed aspell German to use it with LyX. In general the spell checking works quite well, but some things doesn't work as smoothly as with Microsoft Word 2003: for example compound words. In German you

Re: Adjusting styles in lists

2008-03-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 02:55:46PM -0600, James Sutherland wrote: Is there a way in LyX to set list style parameters such as \topsep \parsep, \itemsep etc? Add it in a ERT Box (the thing you get with Ctrl-L) at the beginning of the first item of the list. Not exactly nice, but it works.

Re: How to programmattically mark all ssh with a charstyle?

2008-03-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 06:05:56PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I have a character style called charcode, and would like to have every occurrance of the lower case word ssh have charstyle charcode applied to it. Is there a search and replace type way to do that from within LyX, or

[OT] Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 08:25:17PM -0600, Bob Lounsbury wrote: Just wanted to put in another shameless plug for Gmail. Two or maybe three more reasons I love it: 1) Nearly unlimited storage at 6.5GB of 'free as in free' space, which is always getting larger. Although I've been using it for

Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 08:21:36AM +0100, Max wrote: On 2008-03-13 00:34:13 +0100, Frode Svindseth [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Another thing I generally don't like about usenet oder mailing lists is the use of real names. Not that I would ever have written anything embarrasing in this group, but

Re: [OT] Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:19:25PM -0600, Bob Lounsbury wrote: 3) Also, just to repeat myself. Gmail automatically threads emails by subject, so it is very nice to read as they say it's like having a conversation with people. Well, that's a feature of every decent mail reader (and

Re: [OT] Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-13 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:16:56PM -0600, Bob Lounsbury wrote: I'm not too worried about Google going anywhere in the near future, but if something were to happen it would be easy enough to POP3 all my messages for backup (which may not be a bad idea anyway now that you made me

Re: OT: back up and revision control

2008-03-17 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:20:12AM -0400, Alan G Isaac wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Dominik Böhm apparently wrote: I use an SVN-server for my thesis and upload my work to the server twice a day. I find this a great way to work on research papers, especially if they are collaborative.

Re: Using a network printer

2008-03-18 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 05:02:54PM +, Dave Wood wrote: How do I set up Lyx to use a network printer? At the moment I can print by viewing as pdf in kpdf which sees my printer. I would like to be able to print direct from Lyx though, as I sometimes want to print old files and not have to

Re: final feedback

2008-03-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 06:00:29PM -0400, William B. King wrote: After struggling with LyX for two days, I can't even get it to print out its own documentation, which was prepared in LyX! How much more retarded could it possibly get? Good idea. Let me know when you get it working. Does

Re: final feedback

2008-03-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 06:15:19PM -0400, Manfred Mertens wrote: It is to say, I'm delighted with the clean appearance of Lyx documents. Then I believed in the wysiwyg promises from Lyx and began to deal with it. Some versions before (then I had Suse Linux, now I'm glad with Ubuntu) you got an

Re: WRB - Installing LyX

2008-03-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 03:53:55PM -0700, William R. Buckley wrote: My experience, by using the complete install, about 105MBytes, is that the process is easy. Of course, I use the Windows version, so there may be some differences in the install process. My problems are with the details of

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