Re: Why does lyx use it's own keyboard instead of the systems?

2009-03-17 Thread Dov Feldstern
Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:44:46 +0200 Ronen Abravanel wrote: Before you rush into this change - Consider the following usecase: Switching to math - When I'm in math-mode, I always want my keyboard layout to be English. While In windows, The current keyboard layout override the

Re: Hebrew and Nikud on Linux (Ubuntu)

2009-01-23 Thread Dov Feldstern
Nigel Pegram wrote: Hi everyone, I've been using Lyx for a while but have not been able to get nikud to work correctly. I can enter unicode, even to the point of consonantal Hebrew, but as soon as I add a vowel, I get errors. I have attached a sample file with one point added. If I delete th

Re: Key bindings

2008-11-22 Thread Dov Feldstern
Peleg Michaeli wrote: On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 17:34 +, Peleg Michaeli wrote: When you say "so I have configured my keyboard to have all of the greek letters, including √, ∞, ∝, ≤≥ ⊆⊇ ⊂⊃ ←→ ⇐⇒ − ≠ ≡ ∀ ∃ and many more" --- did you do anything to actually configure the keyboard, or just paste

Re: Key bindings

2008-11-22 Thread Dov Feldstern
Peleg Michaeli wrote: On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 20:28 +0200, Dov Feldstern wrote: They shouldn't all be bothering you, only the ones you include are activated. Probably it's cua -- that's the default. what exactly does your bind file look like? I'm attaching cua and hebrew

Re: Key bindings

2008-11-22 Thread Dov Feldstern
Peleg Michaeli wrote: On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 13:27 +, Guenter Milde wrote: You could try to grep for C-g in all bind files that are read directly or indirectly. I have found these: ./bind/xemacs.bind:\bind "C-g" "cancel" ./bind/xemacs.bind:\bind "C-x C-g""buffer-view p

Re: Key bindings

2008-11-22 Thread Dov Feldstern
Peleg Michaeli wrote: On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 23:18 +, Guenter Milde wrote: So you really have a Psi-key? Well, yes. I type a lot of math, so I have configured my keyboard to have all of the greek letters, including √, ∞, ∝, ≤≥ ⊆⊇ ⊂⊃ ←→ ⇐⇒ − ≠ ≡ ∀ ∃ and many more. I thought that it might rea

Re: getting a document with no page numbers

2008-11-22 Thread Dov Feldstern
Micha wrote: I trying to get a document with no page numbers and for some reason it's just not working. both \pagestyle{empty} \thispagestyle{empty} seem to be ignored. Any idea on where to look for the culprit? the document style is article, bibtex and amstex are in use. The document is both

Re: Still no composing, and a crash...

2008-07-05 Thread Dov Feldstern
I'm continuing this discussion on the lyx-devel list, anyone on this list who's interested can continue following it there (http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/108759) Dov Feldstern wrote: John Coppens wrote: Hello people. I'm not a very frequent user of LyX,

Re: Still no composing, and a crash...

2008-07-04 Thread Dov Feldstern
Dov Feldstern wrote: What version of LyX are you using? Sorry, you already mentioned it's 1.5.5 ;)

Re: Still no composing, and a crash...

2008-07-04 Thread Dov Feldstern
John Coppens wrote: Hello people. I'm not a very frequent user of LyX, but irregularly I do use it, and seem to run into recurrent problems. I reported the accented character composing problem a while ago (it just doesn't work - I can't type Compose-e-', and get é, as I _can_ with other program

Re: keyboard question

2008-07-04 Thread Dov Feldstern
Pavel Sanda wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 09:13:27PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote: Should we get rid of our own keyboard mapping soonish then? Does anybody still use it and could not use alternatives provided by his environment? yes it is still used, i remember some screem last time we discussed

Re: [OT] templating latex

2008-04-04 Thread Dov Feldstern
Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Dov Feldstern wrote: Based on your example, I would strongly recommend that you look into http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/ --- it's a wonderful tool, and it looks to me like it may be just what you're looking for. Dov, Thank y

[OT] templating latex (was: Re: Creating a Document Programmatically)

2008-04-03 Thread Dov Feldstern
Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: Has anyone done this? Our model is written in Python, so we can use the open() and write() methods to squirt strings to a disk file. After learning PyX (Python wrapper for TeX/LaTeX primarily for graphics), and trying to use it t

Re: Fuzzy fonts (Hebrew)

2008-02-23 Thread Dov Feldstern
Peleg Michaeli wrote: Thank you all for your replies! I will try ivritex's mailing list; it's quite weird, because I do have culmus fonts installed - the problem is with ivritex, still? Probably. My understanding is that most of the functionality of ivritex has already been incorporated into

Re: Fuzzy fonts (Hebrew)

2008-02-18 Thread Dov Feldstern
Peleg Michaeli wrote: Hey... First of all - thanks for your reply. Before I do all of your suggested tests (which I will do) I just have to say: it seems like the pdf you've sent me has fuzzy Hebrew as well! Perhaps the problem is with the pdf *viewer* that you're using? Some files I use look

Re: Fuzzy fonts (Hebrew)

2008-02-17 Thread Dov Feldstern
Peleg Michaeli wrote: Hello. Since I have moved to Linux (ubuntu 7.04) and installed LyX (1.5.1) (before that I had Windows XP and LyX 1.5.something), my PDF documents are generated with low quality, both in Hebrew and English; though, DVI/PS documents are fine. I believe that it is somehow rel

visual cursor mode (Bidi)

2008-02-10 Thread Dov Feldstern
Hi! I've just committed to 1.6.0svn a series of patches which add the option of "visual mode" for bidi cursor movement. This patch series is *not* going to be ported back to 1.5.x, that would be too complicated at this point. And as 1.6.0 is nearing (?) an alpha release, I hope this won't be

Re: Compare Changes/Differences between LyX Documents

2008-01-24 Thread Dov Feldstern
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Bo Peng wrote: http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~dekelts/ldiff/ Quite interesting, do you see any hope of integrating this to lyx? ldiff basically just compares tex files (LyX files are converted to tex via lyx -e by the script). I think we should build in some native comp

Re: Hebrew on Mac OS X

2007-12-25 Thread Dov Feldstern
Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: On Dec 19, 2007 8:14 PM, Dov Feldstern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! Abdel, thanks for the heads up. I just haven't been able to keep up with the mailing list / development in the past few weeks... :( I don't really understand much at all about t

Re: Hebrew on Mac OS X

2007-12-19 Thread Dov Feldstern
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: 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 f

Re: long inlined math inside right-to-left article

2007-12-07 Thread Dov Feldstern
Yitzhak Zangi wrote: I write Hebrew article, and when an inlined formula exceeds the length of the line, it breaks and it is starting from the (left) end of the line till where the text ends, and resuming in the middle of the next line to the (right) begginning, so the text resumes in the middle

Re: Configuring LyX for Arabic or Persian

2007-12-01 Thread Dov Feldstern
amp3030 wrote: Hi all, I am trying to configure LyX to write in Persian (Farsi) or Arabic, but I cannot do that. I have installed lyx on my ubuntu 7.10 system using Synaptic. I have also installed texlive-lang-arab, texlive-extra-utils and texlive-xetex packages. I followed instructions of the o

Re: LyX1.5.2: Keyboard problem

2007-10-16 Thread Dov Feldstern
Nicolás wrote: Hi! In previous versions of LyX I could use (in Windows) (Alt gr + "´") + "o" in order to get an accented o: "ó". In LyX 1.5.2 (and I think also in 1.5.1) this does not work. Is this a bug or do I have to configure something? Thanks! Cheers, Nicolás I have no idea how the

Re: Miximg scripts.

2007-10-09 Thread Dov Feldstern
Ernesto Posse wrote: Thanks. Your suggestion worked, after changing the primary keyboard map to null. It works with both the mini-buffer command and through the Text style -> Customize dialog box. Great! I'm glad I was able to help. One more question, is the issue of the options for fontenc

Re: Miximg scripts.

2007-10-04 Thread Dov Feldstern
Ernesto Posse wrote: On 9/29/07, Dov Feldstern wrote: Ernesto Posse wrote: I think the arabi package was installed correctly, since MiKTeX didn't give me any errors. I don't know how else to check if it is correctly installed (it has about 207 files.) I tried reinstalling it, bu

Re: Miximg scripts.

2007-09-29 Thread Dov Feldstern
Ernesto Posse wrote: I think the arabi package was installed correctly, since MiKTeX didn't give me any errors. I don't know how else to check if it is correctly installed (it has about 207 files.) I tried reinstalling it, but I obtain the same results. One way to check would be to see if you

Re: Language Change

2007-09-29 Thread Dov Feldstern
snvv wrote: Hello I use sid debian with LyX 1.5-1 and I have a rather strange problem. When I change language (alt+shift) the LyX menu is activated. Thus, in order to write I have to press once the mouse (cursor) in the text to continue. I thought might be a LyX config but I can't find anyt

Re: Miximg scripts.

2007-09-27 Thread Dov Feldstern
re supposed to do... But as I said above, for an RTL language, you shouldn't need any of the keymap lfuns, switching the language should take care of this as long as you've setup the keymaps to be used. On 9/27/07, Dov Feldstern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ernesto Posse wrot

Re: Miximg scripts.

2007-09-27 Thread Dov Feldstern
Ernesto Posse wrote: Is it possible to write a document in LyX (1.5.1) that mixes two (or more) scripts? If so, how? I have been able to install and use an alternative keyboard map for a non-latin script, but, even though one can specify two keyboard maps, I have not been able to find anywhere i

Re: [OT] keymaps

2007-09-25 Thread Dov Feldstern
Charles de Miramon wrote: Dov Feldstern wrote: If we're talking about keymaps, then yes, I find them very useful. I posted my reasons on the developers list a while back, and I hope to eventually do some work on improving them, too. See http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/

[OT] keymaps (was: Re: dead keys)

2007-09-24 Thread Dov Feldstern
Charles de Miramon wrote: By the way, is there anybody who uses this lyx-specific keyboard configuration ? In my opinion, it looks like a relic of the past and a useless layer of complexity. Keyboards should be configured OS-wide. If we're talking about keymaps, then yes, I find them very usef

Re: Problem with Hebrew Lyx - Reply

2007-09-21 Thread Dov Feldstern
Gideon Livshits wrote: Hello! Firstly, I would like to thank you for your quick response to my problem. It means a lot! You're welcome. In general, you'll find people on the lyx mailing lists to be very responsive and helpful :) . (BTW, I'm CC-ing the mailing lists, so that this gets into

Re: LyX cannot entirely change the document language - now bug 4062

2007-07-27 Thread Dov Feldstern
Helge Hafting wrote: Dov Feldstern wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: Paul Smith wrote: Thanks, Steve. If it is not a bug, then many users like me -- I guess -- would be very happy if they were given the option of choosing as global the change of language, i.e., affecting all paragraphs and not

Re: LyX cannot entirely change the document language - now bug 4062

2007-07-25 Thread Dov Feldstern
Helge Hafting wrote: Paul Smith wrote: Thanks, Steve. If it is not a bug, then many users like me -- I guess -- would be very happy if they were given the option of choosing as global the change of language, i.e., affecting all paragraphs and not only the the new ones. Such an option already

Re: LyX cannot entirely change the document language

2007-07-25 Thread Dov Feldstern
Richard Heck wrote: Paul Smith wrote: On 7/24/07, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After having written a piece of a document, there is apparently no way > of changing the overall language of the document, in the sense that > the part already written remains as written with the previous

Re: using rc1

2007-06-15 Thread Dov Feldstern
Sven Schreiber wrote: Abdelrazak Younes schrieb: I think these bugs will not show up in RC1 if you disable the "RTL support" option in the Preference->Language Settings->Language option. Very interesting, thank you for the hint! I don't mean to be disrespectful for RTL language users, but m

Re: WANTED: users of Right-To-Left languages who want proper support in LyX 1.5

2007-06-05 Thread Dov Feldstern
Miki Dovrat wrote: Hi, I already replied Stefan off list, but I will post this again so anyone can comment. The brain (at least mine) does not like movement to the opposite side. When you press the left arrow, you expect the cursor to move to the left. Try riding a bike with the hands crossed

Re: Linus on GIT and SCM

2007-06-04 Thread Dov Feldstern
Dov Feldstern wrote: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/03/004214 Sorry about this --- sent to the wrong address. ;) Some of you may still find it interesting, though --- it sounds like he trashes SVN...

Linus on GIT and SCM

2007-06-04 Thread Dov Feldstern
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/03/004214

Re: Physical units

2007-06-01 Thread Dov Feldstern
Miki Dovrat wrote: Hi, Do you know how to make a protected half space, so the units don't come out on a different line than the number? Miki Well, if you put it inside an equation, then the thin space itself *is* protected. BTW, inside an equation you can also type in the thin space as \,

Re: Physical units

2007-05-30 Thread Dov Feldstern
You could probably create a macro for it, which would make the input much easier --- you would only need to use the ERT once, when creating the macro. (I haven't use the SIunits package, maybe it's simple enough to use that macros are not even necessary; but if you find yourself typing a lot of

Re: lyx-1.5 beta3 bug

2007-05-26 Thread Dov Feldstern
Rodrigo Fresneda wrote: Hi, everyone. I have been using lyx-1.5 beta 3 for some time now, and so far everything works very nicely, except, perhaps, that the cursor movement is very slow. Regarding the slowness, please try to turn off the RTL option (Tools -> Preferences... -> Language setting

Re: LyX 1.5(beta3) bugs/opinions/suggestions

2007-05-19 Thread Dov Feldstern
Michal Ramsza wrote: Hello, 1. Try to write $x \leq y$ - the \leq part is displayed as an empty box instead of the right symbol. This likely has to do with the particular screen font that you're using. I know that I sometimes see those empty boxes instead of characters which do not appear i

Re: [bug - lyx 1.5.0beta1] changing keyboard in lyx 1.5.0beta1

2007-03-31 Thread Dov Feldstern
Hi! Georg just fixed the keyboard issue today in svn1.5.0. So now both of these issues should be solved. Let us know if this is not the case... Dov Miki Dovrat wrote: Yes, I already filed bugs on these issues prior to the beta release. Miki "Micha Feigin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in mes

Re: [bug - lyx 1.5.0beta1] changing keyboard in lyx 1.5.0beta1

2007-03-22 Thread Dov Feldstern
Micha Feigin wrote: I tried lyx 1.5.0beta1 on my linux system and I ran into two problems: changing the keyboard doesn't work (it continues to write in english on screen despite doing something else in the output). right to left text apears left to right Anyone else notice that also? Hi! (1

Re: Culmus Hebrew fonts

2007-02-02 Thread Dov Feldstern
Hi! You should also check out this package: http://nikud.berlios.de/ . It is mainly for using nikud, but as a side effect it also uses the culmus fonts. It's also really simple to use --- after the initial setup (explained on the site), all you need to do is use the culmus package instead of

Re: Descriptions: more than one word in item header?

2007-01-31 Thread Dov Feldstern
Urtzi Jauregi wrote: Hi everybody, I am writing a list of items using the LyX Description environment. In LaTeX, I can put as many words as I want in the header of each item (the part that appears highlighted in bold); however, in LyX only the firs word gets highlighted. I've exmi

Re: Update to: [announce] LyX150svn builds for Windows

2006-12-23 Thread Dov Feldstern
Hi! Try Document -> Settings... -> Language, uncheck "use language's default encoding", and then see if utf8 appears in the list of Encodings. I must warn you that (a) I'm not using the Windows version, (b) I have no idea about Japanese, and (c) I'm not sure that switching to utf8 is really

Re: Itemised list spacing

2006-11-23 Thread Dov Feldstern
Paul JH Drake wrote: There are no non-floated items in the immediate vicinity of the list, but there are some "Here Definitely" floats elsewhere in the chapter - I need to do this as the float placement is critical and the default placement isn't adequate. It sounds to me like the problem h

Re: Itemised list spacing

2006-11-23 Thread Dov Feldstern
Paul JH Drake wrote: Hi I'm currently writing my thesis with Lyx and having some problems with the spacing of itemised lists. At the moment, lists appear to be automatically spaced to fill the empty space on a page, so I get some lists that look fine and others with only 3 items spanning an en