Re: opening Math help crashes lyx 1.6rc1

2008-08-31 Thread Pavel Sanda
> > On Aug 29, 2008, at 9:05 AM, James Sutherland wrote: > >> Every time I open the Math document in the Help menu, LyX 1.6rc1 crashes. >> All of the other help documents open without any problem. >> >> This occurs on Mac. I haven't been able to check on other platforms. Can >> anyone confirm

Re: plug: LyX article on Linux.com

2008-08-29 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, killermike wrote: > >> John Kane wrote: >>> Nice article. I can refer to it when recommending LyX to people. > > Hi, > > Have you added a link to the article from the wiki page "Press about LyX"? Christian, you are a bit late :) http://www.lyx.org/PressAboutLyX p

Re: 1.6rc2 buglet

2008-08-29 Thread Pavel Sanda
> When I change background color (in the gui), it opens additional 'list of > equations' and 'source' views. this has nothing to do with colors, but with session handling. i have observed on linux, that after instalation of new version, the _second_ run pops up automatically both of the dialogs y

Re: tab through eqnarray environment - bug in 1.6rc1?

2008-08-29 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On Aug 29, 2008, at 7:43 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > >>>>>> >>>>>> For convenience, I would suggest Ctrl-Tab for forward-cycling through >>>>>> eqnarray fields >>>>> >>>>> Can't do that as Ctrl-Tab i

Re: tab through eqnarray environment - bug in 1.6rc1?

2008-08-29 Thread Pavel Sanda
> > On Aug 29, 2008, at 7:43 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > >>>>>> > >>>>>> For convenience, I would suggest Ctrl-Tab for forward-cycling through > >>>>>> eqnarray fields > >>>>> > >>>>>

Re: tab through eqnarray environment - bug in 1.6rc1?

2008-08-29 Thread Pavel Sanda
For convenience, I would suggest Ctrl-Tab for forward-cycling through eqnarray fields >>> >>> Can't do that as Ctrl-Tab is reserved to document switching. >> >> btw it works for you? ctrl+tab makes no action here, athough the binding >> is correct >> and buffer-next lfun from comman

Re: tab through eqnarray environment - bug in 1.6rc1?

2008-08-29 Thread Pavel Sanda
>> >> On Aug 29, 2008, at 1:42 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >> >>> James Sutherland wrote: Has anyone noticed that in 1.6rc1 using the tab key to skip through the three fields in the eqnarray environment does not function properly? Shift-Tab cycles in reverse as it has in the past, b

Re: Bug in LyX 1.6-RC1

2008-08-29 Thread Pavel Sanda
> I don't know if it is a known bug, but LyX 1.6-RC1 crashes whenever I try to > copy a piece of text that contains ERT from one LyX document to another. > > Can anyone confirm this? no, can you confirm it on rc2? pavel

Re: LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 2) is released

2008-08-29 Thread Pavel Sanda
José Matos wrote: > Public release of LyX version 1.6.0 (release candidate 2) > = what about putting it to website? pavel

Re: 1.6.0 rc1 minor bug

2008-08-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Hello, > In Preferences I try to change color of inline completation. > This option no work. are you sure you have set both inline completion and non-unique inline completion colors? pavel

Re: Can't bind lyx function to certain keys

2008-08-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
> > I'm trying to set up my keybindings so that when I enter a greek character, > it inserts the greek character in math mode. I have my keyboard set up > (with xmodmap) so that pressing Mode_switch-a generates "Greek_alpha", > Mode_switch-b generates "Greek_beta", and so on. Then in my lyx keyb

Re: Can't paste into lyx

2008-08-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
> > I use LyX on windows XP. > > I have some text in a .txt file. When I select it and try to paste it into > LyX nothing happens, but it works the other way around, any fix for this? can you report whether this action helps in win environment? : 1. select something _inside_ lyx and copy it. 2.

Re: Reduce spacing between // for hyperrefs?

2008-08-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 02:09:29PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > And, since the preamble is inserted before \usepackage{hyperref}, > this needs to be wrapped in \AtBeginDocument is it possible to put all this into module? i would find it useful. pavel

Re: Any words of wisdom switching from 1.4.2 to 1.5.6?

2008-08-27 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On Saturday 23 August 2008 06:40:32 am killermike wrote: > > Steve Litt wrote: > > > I have one book written in stone age LyX in 2001, using Dekl Tsur's color > > > character style workaround. It's been upgraded to 1.4.2, and compiles on > > > 1.4.2, but it doesn't compile on 1.5.x, and I dread g

Re: Problem importing document from lyx 1.5.5 to 1.6 beta 4

2008-08-03 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Any ideas? plese put it in bugzilla and add the file demonstrating the problem. pavel

Re: Holy Moly!

2008-07-29 Thread Pavel Sanda
> really didn't mean to cause such a drama everyone, sorry if I have > offended anyone all I want is to come off the list. I will follow the > traditional route and keep trying! > Hope everyone has a good day!!! Mellisa, if the web instructions does not work for you, please send me one sample o

Re: generic X copy-and-paste not working

2008-07-29 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On 29.07.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > >My last compile is from SVN 2008-07-25 > > so, if your check-in is not later, this saves a lot of effort and > bandwidth. its from todays morning :) > > > and compiling took several hours. A fresh attempt doday (on anot

Re: generic X copy-and-paste not working

2008-07-29 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On 29.07.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > On 6.05.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > > > Normally, I can highlight text in a terminal and paste it with a > > > > > middle-click. In LyX, usually I can get to it with Edit -> Paste > > > > >

Re: generic X copy-and-paste not working

2008-07-29 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On 6.05.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > Normally, I can highlight text in a terminal and paste it with a > > > middle-click. In LyX, usually I can get to it with Edit -> Paste Special. > > > (I can copy-and-paste fine in my xterms.) > > > > > >

Re: Lyx functions

2008-07-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
> What about in standard mode when I am writing text? nearly all "mouse actions" can be done by keyboard action, you just have to lern the keybindings or bind new functions for your usage. >Can I use lyx as a non WYSIWYG editor? you have to choose what you want. if you want vim-li editing, use v

Re: making a binary tarball from SVN

2008-07-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On 14.07.08, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "G. Milde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > compiling LyX from the source took me some hours, so I thought I could > > > install from a tarball on my second machine. However, trying with > > > > > > make dist-bzip2 > > > Does it work now? > > S

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

2008-07-27 Thread Pavel Sanda
> 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

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

2008-07-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
> 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.

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

2008-07-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
> what I claim is that we need better > script tools to handle lyx documents. Those tools should be stable across lyx > versions and should not depend of any particular file format. frankly - these are nice dreams, but there is not manpower to do it. my feeling is that the xml-branch commit acti

Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)

2008-07-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: >> by the way - Uwe, i have hidden wish - would it be possible for you to >> produce ONE BIG LYX documentation for all the manuals together (plus >> lfuns.lyx) - each file could be one part for example... ? > > Would yo

Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)

2008-07-23 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Yes, please do so. > >> or we can put the .lyx file into LyX help menu. dont know if others think >> its good idea. > > I don't know if this is a good idea as this are informations for > specialists and developers. you are probably right, help menu is overpopulated even now. > I could > provi

Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)

2008-07-23 Thread Pavel Sanda
> This html page is HUGE. It would be helpfull (especially for people on > slower net connections and not so powerfull machines) to have the lfuns > section in a separate html document. (Of course I can use the pdf as well, > but the active links in the html are an added bonus.) you can play with

Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)

2008-07-23 Thread Pavel Sanda
>> If you are interested in mastering LyX this documentation could be useful >> for your needs. > > Should we put this in a page on the wiki site? It could just be a copy of > your announcement that's put in a page in the development group, e.g. > > http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/LFUN > > Then

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

2008-07-23 Thread Pavel Sanda
> The next question is why do we need to manipulate lyx files with awk and > friends? Is not there something that can should be done by lyx? search and replace is one of the weak lyx parts and even if we get Tommaso one day to put his stuff in there are so many place where its of no help. just lo

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

2008-07-23 Thread Pavel Sanda
> 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. as have written others 1.6 is still ok. for lyx files assembly you can still make what you want i

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

2008-07-23 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On Wednesday 23 July 2008 00:19:09 Pavel Sanda wrote: > > while you are right that xml could be better technology for internal > > lyx parsing (and i can understand your viewpoint as lyx2lyx fan:) > > this was not my mail about. > > > > > It is funny to see

Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)

2008-07-22 Thread Pavel Sanda
Dear LyXers, I'm proud to announce that the LFUNs documentation project has been finished. If you are interested in mastering LyX this documentation could be useful for your needs. Some technical speech: * All documentation is orginally written as doxygen comments in our source code, so thi

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

2008-07-22 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Pavel Sanda wrote: > Moreover, if you're editing by hand, you can use > something that recognizes XML. of course it will work, but it will take x-times more time. quite difference to write sed one-liner or start doing some xslt templating. pavel

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

2008-07-22 Thread Pavel Sanda
> 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 . > &g

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

2008-07-22 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Steve Litt wrote: > > this. > > > > > > > Just as easy to parse, I hope. Maybe even easier. 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 . now imagine those regexps wher

Re: .kmap ortography

2008-07-20 Thread Pavel Sanda
> I just want to write this lines > > \kmap < ?? > \kmap > ?? > > in my personal.kmap file to have a "chevrons" or "guillemets" marks (I use > also double quotes) at worst you can alway use key binding instead, i.e. to bind shift+> to unicode-insert 0x0bb lfun. pavel > But it doesn't work, pe

Re: Converting msword to LyX is ugly!

2008-07-19 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Hi all, > > I have a 300 page book written in MS Word version 97, and I have to convert > it > to LyX in order to make the second edition. > > I'll accept all condolences now :-) > > Believe it or not, the MS Word version was written very much what you guys > would call WYSIWYM. I had style

Re: More on 1.6 beta4 crashing on Ubuntu

2008-07-19 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Hi Michael and all list members > > I posted the following question to the list: > > "I have just compiled Lyx 1.6 beta4 on Ubuntu (8.04) and installed it. When > I tried to open my Lyx documents, one document is constantly crashing when I > click on the title in the document (very strange). C

Re: *.po conflicts after updating SVN

2008-07-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On 18.07.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > nothing, this happens when po directory is rebuilt. > > this usually happens only if lyx.pot is missing, > > otherwise plain "make" command shouldn't trigger it. > > As I did not delete lyx.pot by hand, I wonder i

Re: *.po conflicts after updating SVN

2008-07-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
> What did I wrong? nothing, this happens when po directory is rebuilt. this usually happens only if lyx.pot is missing, otherwise plain "make" command shouldn't trigger it. > How could I most easily change all these files to the latest SVN version? go to the po directory, then "svn revert -R *

Re: 1.6 beta4 crashing on Ubuntu

2008-07-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Hi there, > > on my computer runs lyx beta 4 from svn in Ubuntu Hardy. I could not find > the error you described. Could you run lyx in the terminal and post the > crash/error output? even better would be to show us that document... pavel

Re: lyx & docbook XML - schema

2008-07-15 Thread Pavel Sanda
> 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? i'm afraid lyx support of docbook export is obsolete for a long tim

Re: lyx160svn 25575

2008-07-15 Thread Pavel Sanda
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4-lyx-wiki $ LyX: BN_BIND: Unknown LyX function > `error-next' > [around line 69 of file ~/.lyx/bind/de/cua.bind current token: 'error-next' > context: ''] > LyX: BN_BIND: Unknown LyX function `new-line' [around line 205 of file > ~/.lyx/bind/de/cua.bind current token: 'new-

Re: LyX version 1.6.0 (beta 4) is released

2008-07-14 Thread Pavel Sanda
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-1.6.0beta4.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx

Re: Inserting code

2008-07-10 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Is there a way to copy code from other editors into Lyx in such a way that > at least the format of the code is preserved? have you tried listings environment? pavel

Re: overstrike

2008-07-09 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Is there a way to get overstrike text in LyX? > I am looking for something like what happens when you track changes and > delete something, but without using track changes... http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg135337.html we also have it in wiki feature poll. pavel

Re: making a binary tarball from SVN

2008-07-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Dear LyX users, > > compiling LyX from the source took me some hours, so I thought I could > install from a tarball on my second machine. However, trying with > > make dist-bzip2 what happens with "make dist"? pavel

Re: keyboard question

2008-07-02 Thread Pavel Sanda
> 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

Re: keyboard question

2008-07-02 Thread Pavel Sanda
> > this keymap part of lyx is from days when changing keymaps was not so > > easy as it is now under X. by default these things should be maintained > > in X settings not in lyx. here lyx reacts as most other apps wrt keymaps. > > Should we get rid of our own keyboard mapping soonish then? > > D

Re: keyboard question

2008-07-02 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Furthermore, I don't get a single quote this way, but an isolated acute > accent. In other words, with such a keyboard remap, it's impossible to > get a single quote in LyX. > > And at last, only the accents (acute, grave, circonflex...) exhibit this > behavior. The double quote retains its norm

Re: keyboard question

2008-06-27 Thread Pavel Sanda
> PS Here is what I tried: in american.kmap I put > > \kmod ' acute aeiouAEIOU > > # \kmod "," cedilla native > > \kxmod ' c ç just a wild guess, what happen with this: \kxmod acute c ç pavel

Re: keyboard question

2008-06-27 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Dear LyX gurus: why does LyX ignore: > > \bind "cacute" "unicode-insert 0x00e7" > > while e.g. > > \bind "M-C-comma" "unicode-insert 0x00e7" # insert a ç (c with cedilla) > > works? because Qt::Key_Comma exists, while Qt::Key_cacute does not (http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4/qt.html). in

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On 6/8/08, Pavel Sanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > what about to setup some wiki page sumarizing greek+lyx issues? > > > I planned to do this in some near future, but prefered to wait for > some (more) feedback from the list and give myself some more > search-t

Re: Latex commands in math mode

2008-06-17 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Friedrich Hagedorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems this \intertext command is not properly handled in LyX. I had > the same problem, when you press 'space' it jumps you out of the > command. You may want to file this as a bug or feature enhancement. > I'm no

Re: Short indexes reference

2008-06-17 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Thnx, Abdel, but it doesn't work - perhaps is because of the italian version > (lyx 1.5.5) do you have the cursor exactly before the inset (box)? as for the repeat-typing problem, maybe the autocompletion in 1.6 will be of some help for you. pavel

Re: greek fonts (summary?)

2008-06-13 Thread Pavel Sanda
> It is not just the accents but also hyphenation patterns etc. > > The distinction is similar to german and ngerman (i.e. old and new > spelling), only that the reform in Greece was 20 years earlier). > > OTOH, it can be a big timesave if you can input "strange" characters as a > combination of

Re: greek fonts (summary?)

2008-06-12 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On 12 Jun 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > > i would like to summarize the my understanding of the problems i > > encountered, > > please comment on: > > > > 1. Screen painting. > > after installing unicode fonts for X displaying ancient greek l

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-12 Thread Pavel Sanda
> But missing input encodings are not marked (are they?) -- this is what I > call inconsistency. yes :) p

Re: greek fonts (summary?)

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
> > > Question to the developers: Would it be possible to pass the tilde '~' > > > to LaTeX as-is if the language is set to polutonikogreek? > > > please correct me if i'm wrong, but i think this is wrong direction. > > how will you determine nonbreak. space vs tilde accent then? > > The same way

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On 11 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > It still doesn't work here. That is, the tilde comes out before the > letter, not on top of it. > > But I think this is something to do with the current version of Latex, > not Lyx, because the same thing is now happening in native Latex as > well. > > Looks li

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
> But this is inconsistent with handling of other extensions. > Editing in LyX works even without any tex distribution, still > reconfigure checks availability of fonts, classes and packages -- > but not inputenc nor ucs. which is a different story then prohibit this encoding ;) pavel

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
> > is tetex supposed to work with the chosen encoding or do i need texlive? > > what tex distribution do you use? > > utf8x.def is part of the "ucs" package for comprehensive unicode support. > > I use the texlive packages from Debian/testing which contain ucs in > texlive-latex-recommended. >

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
> it. When you put "tilde-accent" into the command buffer and then strike the > desired key, sorry i meant "accent-tilde" > > pavel

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
> With this fix, your lyx example can be set to use the language "Greek > (polytonic)". > > However, as the tilde acts as a non-breakable space in LaTeX, it is > escaped by LyX (converted to \asciitilde) and hence the example will only > work right, if you put the tilde (or the whole text) in an E

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > > On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) > > > > > > > keeps > > > > > > > appearing before the letter instead of above it. > > > > > > > > In most fonts, even in the "Stan

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-11 Thread Pavel Sanda
> > > Normally LyX checks the package availability for any extensions, so this > > > might count as a (minor) LyX bug, > > > no i dont have this package locally, so its not lyx problem. > > It is a lyx problem if you can actively set > Document>Settings>Language>Encoding to utf8x while the packag

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On 10.06.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > now the next step :) i see latex error that utf8x.def file is missing. > > Where you able to select utf8x font encoding from the LyX gui? i dont think this is possible. you can only select language encoding, which was set to utf8x in

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread Pavel Sanda
> I copied them from the `gucharmap` character listing application. Many > editors (but not LyX) have a "special chars" feature where you can select > any character from a table. fyi lyx 1.6 should solve this http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16#toc16 pavel

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-10 Thread Pavel Sanda
> * For the LyX GUI, I use DejaVu Serif, DejaVu Sans and Inconsolata. i installed these and it works beatifully on the screen. now the next step :) i see latex error that utf8x.def file is missing. is tetex supposed to work with the chosen encoding or do i need texlive? what tex distribution do y

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-09 Thread Pavel Sanda
> It works in LyX, if you use the correct unicode char (from the extended > Greek table) out of the box, but not so good with combining chars. > > > Also, there there any way to get the characters to appear in Greek > > on-screen (i.e. before converting the text to dvi)? > > Yes, see attached fil

Re: greek fonts

2008-06-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
> > Does anyone know how to solve this problem??? > > > There was a recent discussion [1] on this, with no apparent solution. > This other relevant discussion [2] seems to offer a solution. > > Regards, > Liviu > > [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg63778.html > [2] http:

Re: 1.5.5 compilation failure with Qt 4.4.0

2008-06-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Qt: 4.4.0 (compiled by me i guess this will be the problem :) maybe the following link can help you http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212086#c6 pavel

Re: Help on new (1.6) mathmacro

2008-06-04 Thread Pavel Sanda
> I'm trying to find a description of how to use the new mathmacro stuff. > Attempting to insert a mathmacro I get something that appears to have input > for a name, TeX code, and LyX code. I don't know what should go into > these. I'm guessing that the box labeled TeX is for a TeX expansion of

Re: [announce] preview test release of LyX 1.6.0beta1 for Windows

2008-05-31 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Hello LyX testers, > > ! THIS LYX VERSION SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR ANYTHING ELSE THAN TESTING ! take this warning seriously, this snapshost has dataloss bug wrt space insets. pavel

Geograph. info

2008-05-24 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Pavel Sanda wrote: >> Motto: >> >> Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >> >>> Pavel Sanda wrote: >>> >>>> i personally would be interrested in geographical distribution :) >>>> in such a case we would have imho bet

Re: Summary to the individual embedding debate.

2008-05-14 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Bo, > agh, sorry wrong list :( pavel

Re: Summary to the individual embedding debate.

2008-05-14 Thread Pavel Sanda
Bo, thanks for your responses. > > - was there some conclusion about filename extension? if there are going > > to be > > any tricks with copying or moving .lyx file itself i smell thousand and > > one > > problems of rewrites, bad deletions on user side etc. i think that some > > .lyz >

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

2008-05-14 Thread Pavel Sanda
> All of my books except one are in LyX 1.4.2. The latest book is LyX 1.5.3. > I'm > hoping to get a 64bit machine with 8GB of Ram, and use LyX 1.5.4. > > I know that once you open and save a LyX 1.4.2 doc in 1.5.4, you can never go > back to 1.4.2. So my question is, do you think 1.5.4 will re

Re: Strange behaviour of .eps figures in LyX 1.5.5

2008-05-14 Thread Pavel Sanda
> I also experience the lack of antialiasing though there seem to be some > exceptions. I am afraid I will not be able to use the promising new 1.6 > series if these problems remain unsolved. I am really afraid as my lecture > notes, slides etc. are almost entirely written by LyX and I would not

Re: Strange behaviour of .eps figures in LyX 1.5.5

2008-05-14 Thread Pavel Sanda
> In the former versions of LyX this behaviour could be prevented by using > older versions of ImageMagick instead of the newer ones coming with the LyX > installer. Now, however, selected ImageMagick files are preinstalled in LyX > directories and the previous workaround with the older ImageMag

Re: Bogus responses to my [EMAIL PROTECTED] posts

2008-05-06 Thread Pavel Sanda
> I see that too. JMarc, is the user list also handled by Mate? In which case > maybe he could erase this account? only in case he was stupid enough to sign up with this email address :) p

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

2008-05-06 Thread Pavel Sanda
> So if this is what happens on all platforms, I would suggest to use the > word "hide" instead of "toggle". ok thats reasonable. pavel

Re: Texlive for lyx

2008-05-06 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Your first step should be to look at what is in each one and decide whether > you need it. I find the best place to quickly get information on packages is > http://gentoo-portage.com. please note that there is texmfind utility under gentoo, which helps to find appropriate packages for a given

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

2008-05-06 Thread Pavel Sanda
> 1- I am not sure I fully understand how the full screen mode options are > supposed to work (I read the wiki page for Lyx 1.6, but I am still not > sure): As I understand it, the "Toggle" checkbox in the prefs (scrollbar, > tabbar, toolbar) set them "off" when checked and "on" when unchecked

Re: generic X copy-and-paste not working

2008-05-06 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Normally, I can highlight text in a terminal and paste it with a > middle-click. In LyX, usually I can get to it with Edit -> Paste Special. > (I can copy-and-paste fine in my xterms.) > > In my LyX, the Paste Special choices are shaded out and not clickable. > > This is LyX 1.5.2 on NetBSD. I

Re: feauture request

2008-04-10 Thread Pavel Sanda
> I have a small request that may be silly for normally able people, but may > be important for the visually impaired. Would it be possible to have > rendered math formulas scaled automatically with the text? i'm not sure what you mean by 'rendered', but here, they are scaled with text accorind

Re: ERT to inline by command (workaround)

2008-04-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
> How can I find out other possbile arguments to inset-insert and what > argument(s) does inset-apply expect? some partial info can be found here: http://www.jikos.cz/~ps/lyx/html/namespacelyx.html#5ae63e8160e98b54ad28f142ed40c202449cfaf8159510673d9cbc8920aa6428 pavel

Re: ERT to inline by command (workaround)

2008-04-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
> > currently inset-settings lfun (now speaking in terms of 1.6) > > I find inset-settings even in my LyX 1.5.4. > > However, I could not get M-x inset-settings to open the settings dialogue > of an ERT box. Tried with the cursor inside the box as well as in front > of the box. (Error message: B

Re: ERT to inline by command

2008-04-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
> My suggestion would be a new LFUN "next-inset-configure" that will > open a dialog window in any case: currently inset-settings lfun (now speaking in terms of 1.6) pavel

Re: Strange segfault of dvipost when compiling lyx file

2008-04-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
>> can anybody confirm on some other tex install that attached dvi fails too? >> i dont have any idea what went wrong. > > Try dvipost-1.1.patch in development\Win32\patches. i had dvipost 1.0 and just upgrading to 1.1 was enough. pavel

Re: Strange segfault of dvipost when compiling lyx file

2008-04-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Here's my output from lyx while generating a .dvi of your example: i guess you must generate postscript. what happens if you run: dvipost a.dvi ? > lyx > dvipng warning: at (-1,-1) ignored header \special{!userdict > begin/bop-hook{/isls false def/vsize 792 def/hsize 612 def}def end}. you hav

Strange segfault of dvipost when compiling lyx file

2008-04-06 Thread Pavel Sanda
hi, i'm getting strange segfault when compiling one particular lyx document. after some time i came to quite small attached example which display the problem. for compilation one needs elsevier article classes (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/elsevier.html) the log says:

Re: Converting to HTML

2008-04-05 Thread Pavel Sanda
> My question is whether I can insert a command that will appear in the > header of an .html file created by LyX. I'd like to do it through the > document settings or other means. Some background follows. you can define your own script converting tex->html. in preamble you will add some tex com

Re: Templates, 3d pages graphic, logo ideas

2008-04-01 Thread Pavel Sanda
>> The 'pages' are nice. However, I don't like the logo. Too far away from >> the current one... > > The 'pages' do look nice, but how are they to be used? In a splash screen? maybe incorporate it into intro picture? i like it too. pavel

Re: LyX logo

2008-04-01 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Rather that there are bosses believing that if you have fun at work you > are not seriously working. I.e. once they see the platypus on your > desktop you cannot convince them that using LyX will increase > productivity as well as quality but fear for the reputation of their > company/university/

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Pavel Sanda
> About skins, I'd love a new skin for wiki.lyx.org (hint, hint), but please > note that it should _not_ be the same as for www.lyx.org. (See discussion > on the devel list). please at least for the wiki part use template which use full screen width. pavel

Re: Visual Tour (Was: New LyX website)

2008-03-31 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On the question of screenshots, > > a) it bugs me that the illustrations are all in a serif font, > which should never be used on a screen, unless it's maybe old > courier. Michael, feel free to re-create pictures in screenshot section and/or graphical tour. the screenshots you sent are fine

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-31 Thread Pavel Sanda
> I really like the structure and the cleanliness. It's very usable and > navigable. > > I'd change the home page text slightly, getting rid of the (IMHO) meaningless > term "WYSIWYM". For instance, I'd change the first paragraph to: this paragraph was changed by me, sorry Steve... i've post my

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-31 Thread Pavel Sanda
> 2. I suggest a direct link to the visual tour, or at least the > screenshots, in the left margin. When I'm shopping for software, that's > usually one of the first things I seek out, and I'll sometimes not bother > poking around a site if I can't see screenshots early on. good point, i usua

Re: New LyX website

2008-03-31 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Achieve effortless superiority in document production! > Without learning any special language or code, just type your content into a > Graphic front end and the superb TeX typesetting system will give you a bit like a spam ;) pavel

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