Re: Help with euro symbol

2006-08-05 Thread José Matos
On Saturday 05 August 2006 00:05, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Of course because LyX 1.4.x couldn't handle Unicode or the encoding the encodings to display the euro sign. LyX 1.5 wiil have this feature. Nope, there is a bug somewhere. LyX supports latin9, the encoding used for the euro, and I have

Re: A Spell Checker Error

2006-08-08 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 08 August 2006 03:45, Rich Shepard wrote:    Running 1.4.2 on linux here. Evoked the spelling checker on a short article and fixed the errors it found. Then I ran the source through pdflatex.    While reading the typeset document, I saw the word, 'th .' How strange, I thought.

Re: placing a large table in landscape orientation

2006-08-08 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 08 August 2006 06:54, John Pye wrote: Hi all, I have moderately wide table that I would like to place on a page of my LyX document in landscape format. I have been able to do this, although note that it comes out wrong in the DVI viewer, but appears not bad in the pdflatex output.

Re: Copying and pasting

2006-08-14 Thread José Matos
On Monday 14 August 2006 14:25, Pupeno wrote: My wife is doing some work in which she pastes lots of text from mails and other places, most of the on UTF-8 and pastes it on Lyx, but Lyx uses Latin-1, so she ends up with a lot of weird characters. Any ideas how to solve the problem ? something

Re: Copying and pasting

2006-08-15 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 14:58, Pupeno wrote:   In 1.4.2 I don't have any problem copy and pasting from an external source to lyx. Is the external selection in UTF-8 ? is your locale in UTF-8 ? is your desktop environment all using UTF-8 as well ? If so, can you track that it is a fix on

Re: Math-intensive work in 1.4.x impossible.

2006-08-17 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 17 August 2006 18:56, Rudi Gaelzer wrote: Indeed, I'm running lyx on FC5 with gcc 4.1.x. Attached is the bug report obtained with  lyx -dbg mathed,action 2 lyx_bug.txt Apparently, the crash really occurs when I exit mathed mode and instant preview should kick in... Could this

Re: Math-intensive work in 1.4.x impossible.

2006-08-17 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 17 August 2006 19:21, Georg Baum wrote: Rudi, I think it is best if you stick with 1.3.7 until we have fixed this issue and then try again. Or turn off instant preview for the moment. :-) Georg -- José Abílio

Designing a book with LyX (link)

2006-08-24 Thread José Matos
Hi all, I found this link in Linux Weekly News: Designing a book with LyX - http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/08/15/1859251 It should be interesting to add to wiki. It is a good promotion of LyX's abilities. :-) Thanks to the authors for the text. -- José Abílio

Re: Problem with including a gnuplot picture

2006-09-09 Thread José Matos
On Saturday 09 September 2006 15:03, Georg Baum wrote: Or write an external template for gnuplot. I am actually surprised that nobody did that yet. Angus tried this but found that it is not secure, you can pass any argument to gnuplot, you can not use it in a sand box. This is the only

Re: wiki: FYI, the word propecia is now blocked

2006-09-12 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 11:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there is any legitimate reason why you would want to write propecia in a page, let me know. (I don't even know what it means...) Wikipedia is your friend. ;-) /Christian -- José Abílio

Re: Historical question

2006-09-13 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 20:37, Alex wrote: Hi! I would like to know when was the development of LyX started? This is what I have been able to dig. If you have details to add I am all hears. :-) I could find 0.8.0 dated to 21st of dec, 1995. But when was it first announced or

Re: Footnotes in an Appendix?

2006-09-19 Thread José Matos
On Monday 18 September 2006 20:47, Dave Jarvis wrote: Hi, I love LyX. But that's not why I'm writing. I have recently (and perhaps naively) added footnotes into a table within an Appendix. When the PDF was generated, no footnotes appeared. Two pages from the same document illustrate the

Re: Footnotes in an Appendix?

2006-09-19 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 07:33, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: It's there now: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Tables#footintab Thanks, Jürgen -- José Abílio

Re: Read only mode?

2006-09-22 Thread José Matos
On Friday 22 September 2006 19:58, Rudi Gaelzer wrote: Is there a read only mode for lyx? From a message sent by Jean-Marc in may, I gathered that there is such a thing: --- snip -- You can use buffer-readonly-toggle (which can even

Re: Enumarating lists and continuation at particular depth

2007-11-08 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 08 November 2007 21:57:51 Bruce Pourciau wrote: When I try to open example lyx files posted on this list, I get a conversion script failure: filename.lyz is from an earlier version of lyx, but the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it I'm running LyX 1.4.1. Must I upgrade to 1.5?

Re: Enumarating lists and continuation at particular depth

2007-11-08 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 08 November 2007 21:00:30 Manveru wrote: What I need is to continue the text at particular level before I put new enumerated position on the list. Now I put standard paragraph for continuations, but I loose formating and continuous enumeration then. Any advices?? Something

Re: Script Conversion Failure

2007-11-09 Thread José Matos
On Friday 09 November 2007 16:42:25 Paul A. Rubin wrote: The lyx2lyx script has an optional argument indicating the format to which to convert.  (It also has an optional from argument, though I don't see in the code where that is used.  But then I don't really speak Python.) LyX always

Re: Script Conversion Failure

2007-11-09 Thread José Matos
On Friday 09 November 2007 16:56:54 José Matos wrote:   The latest version of 1.4.x (1.4.5.1) is able to read 1.5.x documents. That was the mainly purpose of its release. :-) That was the main purpose of its release... -- José Abílio

Re: LyX 1.5.2: Some document classes not available

2007-11-20 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 14:05:27 Patrick Schoenbach wrote: Thanks. This already helps. However, www.sgmltools.org does not exist anymore. Where do I get SGMLTools for Windows from? Google does not help much, or did I overlook something? That is not a latex class. (personal note) I need

Re: LyX 1.5.2: Some document classes not available

2007-11-21 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 21 November 2007 02:59:24 Koji Yokota wrote: SGMLtools was succeeded by SGMLtools-Lite. It can be found at: http://sgmltools-lite.sourceforge.net/ As SGML is already becoming obsolete, you may want to consider using DocBook as the above webpage tells you. I think you

Re: DocBook Support?

2007-11-22 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 22 November 2007 10:40:03 Ryan Cross wrote: Hi, I have seen some pointers to using Lyx for creating/editing DocBook documents. However, the wiki suggests this isn't supported any more. I think that you are referring to linuxdoc and not to docbook. Does anyone know how to do

Re: Getting errors with microtype

2007-11-27 Thread José Matos
On Saturday 24 November 2007 12:48:34 Paul Smith wrote: How can one update pdfeTeX to a newer version? I am using Fedora Linux 7. It is possible to install the texlive packages that are under review for Fedora inclusion in Fedora 7. The idea is to replace tetex by texlive and the packages

Re: DocBook Support?

2007-11-27 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 22 November 2007 22:12:56 Ryan Cross wrote: I don't know much about linuxdoc - but I am pretty sure I am correctly referring to docbook. Its an xml format for generating multiple types of documentation, pdf/html/chm (windows help files)/etc You can see lyx linked directly from the

Re: Getting errors with microtype

2007-11-28 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 27 November 2007 22:27:00 Paul Smith wrote: However, it only contains F8 packages and none of F7. Paul I had the same complain. :-) Jindřich Nový replied that those packages work in F7 as well. The only exception is xdvi that requires some symbol from the new glibc shipped with F8.

Re: lyx2lyx failure

2007-12-08 Thread José Matos
On Friday 07 December 2007 19:47:25 Christopher Menzel wrote: Howdy, I am unable to import some older LyX files (from 2000 -- LyX format version 215) and I'm not finding any solutions on the web or the LyX archives or Wiki. Inside LyX, I get the following msg: (MyFile) is from a

Re: TeXLive rpm packages available to Fedora 8 users

2007-12-09 Thread José Matos
On Sunday 09 December 2007 10:20:06 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Did you try my suggestion on bugzilla (uninstalling KDE4)? I suspect that you are right. In my new desktop I have not (yet) installed kde4 and lyx displays figures and math previews. On my laptop were kde4libs are installed it

Re: TeXLive rpm packages available to Fedora 8 users

2007-12-10 Thread José Matos
On Sunday 09 December 2007 17:54:40 Rex Dieter wrote: If you could try the kde-3.96 update coming to updates-testing soon, and let folks know if it helps or not, it would be greatly appreciated. Else, someone (hint hint, else will probably will fall to me or others of fedora's KDE SIG  :)) is

Re: TeXLive rpm packages available to Fedora 8 users

2007-12-10 Thread José Matos
On Sunday 09 December 2007 17:53:00 Rex Dieter wrote: What is most likely, afaict, is that this is a bug in some version(s) kdelibs4, and this isn't fedora (8) specific at all. I agree with Rex on this point. :-) -- Rex -- José Abílio

Re: dejavu fonts with texlive (fedora 8)

2007-12-12 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 18:37:01 Neal Becker wrote: I noticed after installing texlive on fedora f8 that now if I create a beamer document, the default fonts are ugly, and they are coming from: /usr/share/fonts/dejavu-lgc/DejaVuLGCSans.ttf If I do \usepackage{cmlgc}, everything is cool.

Re: Lyx en español

2007-12-12 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 17:24:00 Todd Denniston wrote: Automatically translated text: Comapñeros of habal Hispanic. We ask in Spanish? There was a type here, it is Compañeros. So the translations should be something like: Dear Spanish speaker fellows may I ask questions in Spanish?

Re: fun poll: your linux distro

2007-12-29 Thread José Matos
On Saturday 29 December 2007 00:37:44 Paul Smith wrote: Here: LyX 1.5.2 on Fedora 8. Hopefully, the official LyX 1.5.3 rpm for F8 will be available soon. That version is already in updates-testing # yum update lyx --enable-repo=updates-testing should update lyx to the new version. It

Re: DocBook Support?

2008-01-04 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 02 January 2008 08:03:52 Ryan Cross wrote: Bump... Can anyone provide some guidance on working with DocBook for Lyx (with any current versions)? Thanks! -Ryan I am sorry for the delay. I have been recovering from a small surgery just before the holidays, and now I am

Re: Reminder of otl2lyx.awk

2008-01-04 Thread José Matos
On Sunday 30 December 2007 19:05:04 Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, otl2lyx.awk has been tested and works for LyX 1.4.x. I hear 1.5.x has a different format, so obviously otl2lyx.awk must be changed to output the 1.5.x type LyX, or maybe the LyX project offers a converter. Either way it's not

Re: lyx2lyx conversion

2008-01-14 Thread José Matos
On Monday 14 January 2008 17:02:43 rgheck wrote: If the file is from 1.5, upgrade to 1.4.5.1: It can read files from 1.5. If the problem is file corruption, we can try to solve the problem if you post the file here. Sometimes that is not possible due to privacy reasons, in some cases you can

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-14 Thread José Matos
On Monday 14 January 2008 17:18:05 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 option, but

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-15 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 15 January 2008 13:14:45 rgheck wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or how long it takes to compile LyX... :-) [*] [*] Seriously, I'm probably interested in the specs and what compile time you got when using e.g. two or three of the cores. But this is maybe better suited for the

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-15 Thread José Matos
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 switch to IceWM, and my second step was to find non-KDE

Re: bug in conversion of old lyx file to 1.5.3 (uwthesis template)

2008-01-31 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 23:55:02 Scott Otterson wrote: I'm trying to use lyx 1.5.3 to read a lyx file which was created with an older version of lyx (the University of Washington lyx thesis template: http://staff.washington.edu/fox/tex/uwthesis_lyx.zip).  When I open the file,  this

Re: bug in conversion of old lyx file to 1.5.3 (uwthesis template)

2008-01-31 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 31 January 2008 00:37:44 Paul A. Rubin wrote: BTW, the traceback seems to relate to the zlib library.  Were you attempting to convert the file while it was in an archive?  The last line of the error dump suggests not, but I wonder why then lyx2lyx was executing something

Re: accents and dead keys

2008-01-31 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 31 January 2008 09:41:59 Ignacio García wrote: Then, I should like to know if this behaviour also works for you, in other GNU/Linux flavours or O.S., and/or in other languages using dead keys for accent keys. Fedora 8 and a Portuguese keyboard here. The dead keys work just

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-19 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 05:55:21 Paul Johnson wrote: Is there any news on this trouble?  I'm a little puzzled by it. On Fedora 8, I just installed the bleeding edge KDE4 and found that lyx crashed, and then I googled my way to this thread.  I am running the lyx package that is distributed

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-21 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 21 February 2008 06:43:12 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I've promised to keep out of this thread but this is again plain FUD, LyX-1.5 is perfectly compilable with Qt-4.1.0. The INSTALL file only says that it has been _tested_ with Qt-4.1.5. All version of Qt-4.1.x are course binary and

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread José Matos
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. make clean is not enough? I am asking although I suspect that the

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 21 February 2008 20:03:04 Steve Litt wrote:   --with-version-suffix=1.5.3 You can simply use --with-version-suffix and configure will put the right version for you. :-) -- José Abílio

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms? SOLVED

2008-02-21 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 21 February 2008 19:55:28 Steve Litt wrote: On my box, every make, whether successful or failure, takes about 25 minutes, and ./configure takes 5 minutes. I'm not going to have time to do that for at least a couple weeks. In such cases ccache is really useful. :-) The answer to

Re: Problems installing LyX - better method

2008-03-18 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 18:50:20 Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL wrote: I reported this bug (4633) 1.6svn seems to be incapable to read 1.5.x files (on my Win XP Pro system). And I replied there that I suspect from your python installation. :-) We need a better debugging info for this kind

Re: pdf file size

2008-03-19 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 21:03:11 Miki Dovrat wrote: Hi, Can I give lyx (or imagemagick convert through lyx) or some other latex package an option to resample all graphics in a certain resolution to reduce the pdf file size? convert has a -resample option. I would love to do it on the fly

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-26 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 25 March 2008 00:48:50 M-L wrote: I agree. The bird is good, instantly recognisable and synonymous with LyX. It is the LyX brand in that it is unique. That is not a bird. That is a platypus and is a mammal although it lays eggs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus So please don't

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

2008-03-27 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 27 March 2008 01:49:50 Rich Shepard wrote:    Regardless, naming the mascot Lydia is a great idea: no other FOSS application has such a name. Perhaps we could mate Lydia and Tux, sell the off-spring to zoos (once they hatch, of course) and fund development that way. Oh, it would

Re: LyX logo

2008-03-27 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 26 March 2008 20:06:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, and I guess it's no coincidence that there's a platypus in the users' guide?  Is there a story behind this particular animal, e.g. something like that it's a hybrid animal, like LyX? I am not sure, the platypus figure made its

Re: Troubleshooting Process not allowed?

2008-04-01 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 15:04:54 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: I hope this will be fixed in LyX 1.6. That will be released on Christmas. Jürgen -- José Abílio

Re: When will Lyx 1.6 be available?

2008-04-06 Thread José Matos
On Sunday 06 April 2008 05:30:27 HZ wrote: Hi all I have seen a lot of new features with Lyx 1.6. It is so attractive. So I am just wondering when will it be released? When it is ready. :-) Is there any new information about that? We are near the release of the second alpha (the first

Re: lyx2lyx fails to import .tex document created by openoffice

2008-04-07 Thread José Matos
On Monday 07 April 2008 16:39:25 José Matos wrote: This problem happens both for lyx 1.5.5svn and 1.6.0svn. best, rené toth In order not to forget this bug I filled this in bugzilla: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4719 -- José Abílio

Re: lyx2lyx fails to import .tex document created by openoffice

2008-04-07 Thread José Matos
On Monday 07 April 2008 15:21:07 René Toth wrote: hello, it seems that i've got a problem with lyx2lyx, when i try to import .tex documents which i've created with openoffice. lyx always reports an error to me, that the conversion-script failed, because the created .lyx file comes from a

Re: Creating LaTeX File Programmatically: The Solution

2008-04-08 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 08 April 2008 00:58:49 Rich Shepard wrote:    I don't mind contributing this to the Wiki if Christian (or anyone else) thinks there might be future interest in this, but I did not try it with LyX because I knew there would be a lot of adjustments to get the positioning just right.

Re: Missing the Obvious? -- FIXED!

2008-04-08 Thread José Matos
On Monday 07 April 2008 23:33:13 Rich Shepard wrote:    I now return you to your regularly scheduled mail list. Welcome to the Teddy bear effect. :-) http://www.answers.com/topic/teddy-bear-effect Rich -- José Abílio

Re: Can't \includegraphic in preamble or ERT

2008-04-16 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 16 April 2008 16:34:17 Jeremy Malcolm wrote: I have the layout of a Memoir book title page defined in LyX using   LaTeX, because it is too complex to be done with the LyX editor.  One   line of it is this: \includegraphics[scale=0.1]{terminuspress.png} I know that it is a waste

Re: lyx2lyx convert failed

2008-04-19 Thread José Matos
On Saturday 19 April 2008 11:36:19 Carlos Sosa Paz wrote: Dear all I wrote my lyx file in 1.4.2 lyx version but when i try to open it in 1.4.3 version i got the following error message lyx2lyx failed to convert. Find attach the file. Correction, your lyx files says that you created it with

Re: lyx 1.5.4 - make check Fail!.

2008-04-23 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 23 April 2008 17:50:18 Enrique J. Madrid M. wrote: Hi, When I run the make check command, I get the message bellow: ... PASS: test_convert FAIL: test_filetools PASS: test_lstrings 1 of 3 tests failed Please report to [EMAIL

Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6.0alpha2 for Windows

2008-04-24 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 24 April 2008 14:06:50 killermike wrote: On Thursday 24 April 2008 13:50:13 Uwe Stöhr wrote: Hello LyX testers, I uploaded a new snapshot of the upcoming LyX version 1.6.0 for Windows: LyX 1.6.0alpha2. Could someone confirm for me: is the Linux 1.6.0 alpha 2 actually

Re: Texlive for lyx

2008-04-29 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 08:35:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has anyone done it yet ? Got any problem ? How does LyX work with it ? Please let me know I have

Re: Thesis template in Lyx

2008-04-30 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 30 April 2008 20:57:54 Bob Lounsbury wrote: I then renamed report.layout to ufthesis.layout and changed the first line from: \DeclareLaTeXClass{report} to \DeclareLaTeXClass{ufthesis} And done. You now have a layout file for your ufthesis.cls file. Or better yet, include it

Re: Tex capacity exceeded

2008-05-03 Thread José Matos
On Saturday 03 May 2008 16:34:01 Adrian Peter wrote: Hi, I am working on a multipart thesis using Lyx. I keep getting the following error when I try to export to PDF or view the DVI: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000] I checked the mail archive and saw that there

Re: Thesis template in Lyx (including a chapter)

2008-05-05 Thread José Matos
On Saturday 03 May 2008 03:30:28 Adrian Peter wrote: I have set the document type of the child document (my chapters) to the same type as the main lyx file (for which I created the layout file to point to the ufthesis.cls file).  Is the child document somehow redefining the graphicx package

Re: LyX formatting citations incorrectly-- Desperate for help

2008-05-09 Thread José Matos
On Friday 09 May 2008 00:06:24 Adam Pantanowitz wrote: Hi all I have searched far and wide, read documents, and tried messing around with layout and cls files, but have been unable to find an answer. If someone can help me, I'd be immensely grateful! I am trying to use the IEEEtran style

Re: Automated generation of graphs to be included

2008-05-14 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 13:54:04 Neal Becker wrote: I wrote a little python to generate a bunch of graphs. How do I format this to a file to include in lyx? I tried making a file with: \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset Graphics filename N=512,e=--20.pdf width 100line%

Re: Automated generation of graphs to be included

2008-05-14 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 14:38:02 Neal Becker wrote: Not sure what you mean here. Help-Customization- Chapter 6 - Including External Material -- José Abílio

Re: How badly is a LyX upgrade going to mess me up?

2008-05-14 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 18:55:28 Steve Litt wrote: So my question is, do you think 1.5.4 will reformat my 1.4.2 documents in any way? Forewarned is forearmed. It should not, if it does that and is not documented in NEWS or RELEASE-NOTES it is a bug and it should be fixed. So if you want to

Re: Mysterious LaTeX Error

2008-05-21 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 17:24:04 Rich Shepard wrote:    The 'Missing $ inserted' error message is generated when there is a math symbol (e.g., $) in the text string that causes LaTeX to enter math mode. I do not have any monetary amounts in the text. What other character might be seen by

LyX version 1.6.0 (beta 3) is released

2008-06-04 Thread José Matos
Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (beta 3) === We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.6.0 (beta 3). Compared with the latest stable release, this is the culmination of one year of hard work, and we sincerely hope you will enjoy the results. This release

Re: LyX version 1.6.0 (beta 3) is released

2008-06-05 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 04 June 2008 20:48:33 José Matos wrote: The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues with this release compared to the latest stable release (LyX 1.5.5). An updated list of issues might later be found at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes You can download LyX 1.6.0beta3 here

Re: LyX version 1.6.0 (beta 4) is released

2008-07-14 Thread José Matos
On Monday 14 July 2008 14:26:51 Pavel Sanda wrote: José Matos wrote: You can download LyX 1.6.0beta4 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2, which yields smaller files): ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-1.6.0beta4.tar.gz ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx

Re: lyx docbook XML - schema

2008-07-15 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 15 July 2008 09:29:24 Mickael Leduque wrote: Hello, I'm working on a project where the documentation is written in docbook XML. I'd like to use Lyx to create it, but I have not found where I can make lyx export to XML with schema instead of DTD. How do I do that? Do you want to

Re: Zoom in LyX (like in firefox)

2008-07-15 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 16 July 2008 00:17:06 Aleksandar Kanchev wrote: Thanks for the quick responses. I believe you Abdel, but I can't find a Fedora 9 RPM for LyX 1.6.0 or at least a binary. I really don't want to compile it from scratch. 1.6.0 will be available as an update for F9 as soon as it

Fwd: Re: Zoom in LyX (like in firefox)

2008-07-16 Thread José Matos
I think that Máté wanted to send this to the list, I have no opinion on this issue. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Zoom in LyX (like in firefox) Date: Wednesday 16 July 2008 From: Máté Salát [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: José Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a remark on the ctrl

Re: Ugly output in PDF

2008-07-17 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 17 July 2008 12:58:18 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Or get the same effect by chosing Latin Modern Roman in Document-Settings-Fonts. Would it make sense to have some kind of switch to change all them at once instead of changing each individually? I mean in addition to the current

Re: Ugly output in PDF

2008-07-17 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 17 July 2008 13:38:15 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: In other words: Latin Modern Roman and Standard for the other shapes is equvalent to \usepackage{lmodern}. Jürgen That is fair, thanks for the explanation. :-) -- José Abílio

Re: Converting msword to LyX: Lessons learned so far

2008-07-21 Thread José Matos
On Monday 21 July 2008 16:07:34 rgheck wrote: Well, if you ever do need to do this, let me know. I know my way around lyx2lyx---it's really a very good piece of work---and could probably write such a thing in half an hour. Count me in as well, lyx2lyx is my baby and I like it to be used for

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-21 Thread José Matos
On Sunday 20 July 2008 15:19:04 Steve Litt wrote: I know modern versions of LyX are XML native -- We are not there yet. :-) I hope LyX native format never becomes complex like OO. That is not in our plans. :-) -- José Abílio

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion

2008-07-22 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 21:04:59 Steve Litt wrote: One more thing -- if you're going XML and don't want to reinvent the wheel, you'll be using someone else's XML parser. Please, please, PLEASE, don't make it some parser with tons of dependency so that the guy with a 2 year old distro can't

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-22 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 22:54:14 Pavel Sanda wrote: now you are joking right? :) i just see all the bugs just because '' is redirection. and imho manually generate \begin_layout Standard is more simpler then typing layout name=Standard. You are welcome to reimplement lyx in shell, good luck.

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 00:19:09 Pavel Sanda wrote: by 'outside' i mean tweakings which i regularly do and watching users list power users do that too _and_ are happy about the current simplicity of format. tweaks like assembling of the whole file for various datasets, global changes of

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 12:19:16 Pavel Sanda wrote: i've done incorrect file, it's my fault if lyx crashes. i take my responsibility, no problem. trial method is the fastest if you want something quickly. If LyX crashes that is a bug. LyX should not ever crash, it can refused to load a file

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 15:33:16 Steve Litt wrote: The trouble is, XML tags can be anywhere -- spacing and linefeeds are immaterial. That means you can no longer parse based on position, such as: /^begin_layout/ because technically the whole XML file could be in a single line. Or a single

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 15:20:59 Steve Litt wrote: When the discussion reverts to your thingamabob is from another decade/century so it must not be good by today's standards, you know that thingamabob is pretty darn good, or else there would have been a more powerful argument against it.

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 15:58:56 Steve Litt wrote: Hi Pavel, Perhaps our best hope of continuing tweakability of native LyX is to create 1.5.x to XML and XML to 1.5.x converters. Then all the parsing/tweaking can continue to be done in the 1.5.x format. I will advise against such practice.

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 14:49:12 Manveru wrote: Guys, Have you even looked at TinyXML? Thanks for the link. :-) -- José Abílio

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-24 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 19:24:16 Pavel Sanda wrote: this depends on what you master. i'm used on the bunch of small unix utilities so i gave that sed example. if you know python you will do in python. my point was not propose the best tools but to groan and moan about xml :) FWIW this chunk

Re: We could really use search-for-environment and search-for-charstyle

2008-07-24 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 19:16:49 Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, One feature I think would be really helpful in LyX would be search-for-environment and search-for-character-style. That way I wouldn't need to go into Vim every time I wanted to locate a specific character style. Thanks SteeveT

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-27 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 24 July 2008 13:07:19 Pavel Sanda wrote: frankly - these are nice dreams, but there is not manpower to do it. my feeling is that the xml-branch commit activity pefectly shows what will happen after the worst bugs will be repaired in xml merged trunk. or you have some particular

LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 1) is released

2008-08-05 Thread José Matos
Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 1) = We are pleased to announce the first release candidate of LyX 1.6.0. LyX 1.6.0 will be the culmination of 12 months of hard work since the release of the LyX 1.5 series. We

Re: LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 1) is released

2008-08-07 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 05 August 2008 15:47:05 José Matos wrote: Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows installers) should soon be available at ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/devel/ For what is worth the right address is (the second lyx was missing): ftp

Re: Lyx cross platform compatability - is there a problem?

2008-08-19 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 19 August 2008 06:35:32 Graham Smith wrote: I have asked in another question (sa far without a solution) about problems with getting a Lyx file created on a Mac to compile on Windows (it compiles fine on Linux). As I intend sharing files with a Windows user, is this a common

Re: AGU article (SGML) setup

2008-08-19 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 14 August 2008 19:38:24 Brian Larsen wrote: I am trying to get a publication ready for Geophysical Research Letters, an AGU journal. I would love to be able to use the AGU article (SGML) document class but no matter what I try I can't seem to find the right files to put in my

Re: Lyx cross platform compatability - is there a problem?

2008-08-20 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 07:45:18 Manveru wrote: I think explanation to the problem is fact that Mac new line character (EOL) is CR, Windows is CR+LF, and Unix is LF. For compatibility most Unix based applications ported to Windows handles only LF from these two, so on Windows options were

Re: Memoir/hyperref conflict is a known issue PARTIALLY SOLVED

2008-08-26 Thread José Matos
On Monday 25 August 2008 19:15:38 Steve Litt wrote: Second, I'm really bent out of shape (American idiom for extremely angry) because those fool packagers at Mandriva put in a 2004 Memoir package into Mandriva 2008.1. I've got nine months to get over my anger, but right now I'm inclined to

Re: Memoir/hyperref conflict is a known issue PARTIALLY SOLVED

2008-08-27 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 26 August 2008 09:39:00 José Matos wrote: all the packages have the right license (allow us to redistribute and modify) with the non-commercial clause (as an example). Just for correctness sake I should mention that I meant *without* any non- commercial clause, for example. Any non

Re: plug: LyX article on Linux.com

2008-08-28 Thread José Matos
On Thursday 28 August 2008 18:22:59 killermike wrote: I've just written an overview of the new features in the forthcoming 1.6 release for Linux.com. Apologies to the developers if significant features had to be marginalised because I had to prioritise. A big thanks for pulling off another

LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 2) is released

2008-08-29 Thread José Matos
Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 2) = We are pleased to announce the second release candidate of LyX 1.6.0. LyX 1.6.0 will be the culmination of 12 months of hard work since the release of the LyX 1.5 series. We

LyX 1.6.0 (release candidate 3) is released

2008-09-30 Thread José Matos
Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 3) = We are pleased to announce the third release candidate of LyX 1.6.0. LyX 1.6.0 will be the culmination of 14 months of hard work since the release of the LyX 1.5 series. We

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