Re: Making a LyX environment with arguments

2005-11-06 Thread Mael Hilléreau
# %%% BottomNote Environment Style BottomNote LatexType Environment LatexName whiteargs[1in, 3in] ### rest of this environment style is left out for clarity End This example doesn't work because it will produce the following LaTeX output: \begin{whiteargs[1in,

Chapter* titel problem

2005-11-06 Thread Søren O'Neill
Hi there, I've got a foreword chapter defined with a title Foreword as 'Chapter*' (I dont want it counted). However, the pagestyle Heading now displays 'Figures' in the top of the page. Figures is the preceding chapter - i.e. using Chapter* (rather than Chapter), the chapter titel to be

Left \cases

2005-11-06 Thread Hannan Sadar
Hi, Is there a command that do the same like \cases but to the other side? Thanks

mtabular environment in LyX

2005-11-06 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All As far as I can see, there is no LyX support for the nice AMS environment mtabular. Is it planned to have it in next versions of LyX? (I am using LyX 1.3.6.) Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: Left \cases

2005-11-06 Thread Angus Leeming
Hannan Sadar wrote: Is there a command that do the same like \cases but to the other side? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general:25485 -- Angus

Lyx on Windows and layout error

2005-11-06 Thread Banibrata Dutta
Hi, I am Lyx newbie, but I am posting this query after a google search (failed). When I start a new document (New from Template), with all templates (layouts) I tried, I get the same warning, i.e. the TeX class is missing. For e.g. on selecting docbook_article.lyx, I got the following: Textclass

Re: mtabular environment in LyX

2005-11-06 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/6/05, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I can see, there is no LyX support for the nice AMS environment mtabular. Is it planned to have it in next versions of LyX? (I am using LyX 1.3.6.) To have a better understanding of what is mtabular environment, see sub-section 73.1 of

Re: Lyx on Windows and layout error

2005-11-06 Thread Angus Leeming
Banibrata Dutta wrote: Hi, I am Lyx newbie, but I am posting this query after a google search (failed). When I start a new document (New from Template), with all templates (layouts) I tried, I get the same warning, i.e. the TeX class is missing. For e.g. on selecting docbook_article.lyx, I

Re: Pagination problem

2005-11-06 Thread mywebs2005-lyx
Hey Matthew, I'd like to give you my congratulations! I saw your Stellarium and I like it very much! It is a great and funny application! I think you shouldn't use type3 font, because the PDF is not good viewed this way. I think it's nice to use only type1 postscript font, and maybe it

Re: Left \cases

2005-11-06 Thread Hannan Sadar
I read it, thanks but this is TeX solution. Is there also a LyX short cut? On 11/6/05, Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hannan Sadar wrote: Is there a command that do the same like \cases but to the other side? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general:25485 -- Angus

Re: Left \cases

2005-11-06 Thread Angus Leeming
Hannan Sadar wrote: I read it, thanks but this is TeX solution. Is there also a LyX short cut? No. On 11/6/05, Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hannan Sadar wrote: Is there a command that do the same like \cases but to the other side?

itemize/enumerate in theorem environment possible in LyX ?

2005-11-06 Thread H. Peter Gumm
Hi, I frequently want to use itemize and/or enumerate within a theorem environment. I know how to do it with ERT, can I do it solely with LyX, too ? I am using the article(AMS) layout. Greetings, H.Peter Gumm

\columnsep with multicol

2005-11-06 Thread Gunnar
Hi. I'm using a multicol environement with two columns but I'd like some more space between the columns. I have used these commands \setlength{\columnsep}{20mm} \setlength{\columnseprule}{0.4pt} but the columnsep doesn't seem to be changing. It doesn't matter if it is 20mm or 40mm or 10mm,

Re: itemize/enumerate in theorem environment possible in LyX ?

2005-11-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
H. Peter Gumm wrote: Hi, I frequently want to use itemize and/or enumerate within a theorem environment. I know how to do it with ERT, can I do it solely with LyX, too ? I am using the article(AMS) layout. Greetings, H.Peter Gumm At the point in the theorem where you want the enumeration,

Re: \columnsep with multicol

2005-11-06 Thread Gunnar
Sorry, I should put the \setlength{\columnsep}{20mm} command outside of the environment. That fixes things.

Re: \columnsep with multicol

2005-11-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gunnar wrote: Hi. I'm using a multicol environement with two columns but I'd like some more space between the columns. I have used these commands \setlength{\columnsep}{20mm} \setlength{\columnseprule}{0.4pt} but the columnsep doesn't seem to be changing. It doesn't matter if it is 20mm or

Re: Pagination problem

2005-11-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Matthew Gates wrote: Hi. I started using LyX some time ago for stuff like letters and my CV. Recently I started a rather bigger project - the Stellarium User Guide. Everything's going pretty well, and I've learnt a lot about stuff like using bibtex and how to make indexes with sub-items

Re: Left \cases

2005-11-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hannan Sadar wrote: Is there a command that do the same like \cases but to the other side? See section 18.5 of http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/LyXMathebefehle/LyXMathebefehle.pdf http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/LyXMathebefehle/LyXMathebefehle.lyx regards Uwe

Modifying the koma-letter2 lyx template

2005-11-06 Thread Rohnny Moland
Hi, I am not sure if I ask this question on the right list, so please point me to another list if this is the wrong place. I am using the koma-letter2 lyx template, which works very well, but I am looking for a way to turn off the opening section, when writing formal letters. Is this possible?

Re: Lyx on Windows and layout error

2005-11-06 Thread Banibrata Dutta
Thanks a lot Angus for the reply. Since I am getting the same error for other layouts too, (i.e. non docbook ones), is some information available in the Wiki for setting up the underlying LaTeX for generating the document. In the presence of these errors, the Export options (to DVI, PS, PDF etc.)

Re: mtabular environment in LyX

2005-11-06 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On 11/6/05, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I can see, there is no LyX support for the nice AMS environment mtabular. Is it planned to have it in next versions of LyX? (I am using LyX 1.3.6.) To have a better understanding of what is mtabular environment,

Re: Modifying the koma-letter2 lyx template

2005-11-06 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Rohnny Moland wrote: I am using the koma-letter2 lyx template, which works very well, but I am looking for a way to turn off the opening section, when writing formal letters. Is this possible? I have looked at the lyx template code but I cant find any options for it. You can't just turn it

Re: Please confirm your message

2005-11-06 Thread SungNae Cho
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Re: Please confirm your message

2005-11-06 Thread SungNae Cho
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Grammar

2005-11-07 Thread Johan Ingvast
Hi Has anybody looked into the possibilities of incorporating a grammer checker into lyx. I just found that AbiWord has one, and they are using link-grammer http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link Just wondering /johan

accented words in lyx 1.3.6 and suse 9.3

2005-11-07 Thread Gisbert, Fernando
I'm sure this topic has been commented before, but i can't find a satisfactory answer in the mail archive. sorry. My problem is that lyx cannot manage accented words (i'm writing a document in spanish, currently) under suse 9.3. I had no problem under suse 9.1. thanks in advance for any

TeXLive 2005, LyX and Windows xp

2005-11-07 Thread Stephen Harris
Hi, I decided to test the newly released (Nov. 2) of TeXlive 2005, and chose the scheme-full install which took a bit over an hour on a 2gig cpu and 512mb of memory. No problems. It also took about 2 hours to download the 700+mb iso file to burn. Next I installed winlyx 1.3.6 made by Angus. It

Re: TeXLive 2005, LyX and Windows xp

2005-11-07 Thread Angus Leeming
Stephen Harris wrote: Next I installed winlyx 1.3.6 made by Angus. It was necessary to change from default of Miktex to C:\TexLive2005\bin\win32 Stephen, can you find out if TeXlive has an entry in the registry so that the Windows installer can check for its existence? -- Angus

Re: mtabular environment in LyX

2005-11-07 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/7/05, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I can see, there is no LyX support for the nice AMS environment mtabular. Is it planned to have it in next versions of LyX? (I am using LyX 1.3.6.) To have a better understanding of what is mtabular environment, see

Re: mtabular environment in LyX

2005-11-07 Thread Herbert Voss
Paul Smith wrote: On 11/7/05, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I can see, there is no LyX support for the nice AMS environment mtabular. Is it planned to have it in next versions of LyX? (I am using LyX 1.3.6.) To have a better understanding of what is mtabular

Re: mtabular environment in LyX

2005-11-07 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/7/05, Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I can see, there is no LyX support for the nice AMS environment mtabular. Is it planned to have it in next versions of LyX? (I am using LyX 1.3.6.) To have a better understanding of what is mtabular environment, see

Re: Modifying the koma-letter2 lyx template

2005-11-07 Thread Rohnny Moland
Hi Jürgen, On 11/07/2005 08:16 AM, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: One solution: instead of an actual opening phrase, write \vspace*{-3\baselineskip} (in ERT) into the opening line (you might want to adjust the length, which shrinks the distance by 3 lines in the example). Thanks for that nice

Re: Pagination problem

2005-11-07 Thread Matthew Gates
On Sunday 06 November 2005 22:19, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Matthew Gates wrote: Hi. I started using LyX some time ago for stuff like letters and my CV. Recently I started a rather bigger project - the Stellarium User Guide. Everything's going pretty well, and I've learnt a lot about stuff

Re: TeXLive 2005, LyX and Windows xp

2005-11-07 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 1:55 AM Subject: Re: TeXLive 2005, LyX and Windows xp Stephen Harris wrote: Next I installed winlyx 1.3.6 made by Angus. It was necessary to change from default of

Re: TeXLive 2005, LyX and Windows xp

2005-11-07 Thread Angus Leeming
Stephen Harris wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: Next I installed winlyx 1.3.6 made by Angus. It was necessary to change from default of Miktex to C:\TexLive2005\bin\win32 Stephen, can you find out if TeXlive has an entry in the registry so that the Windows installer can check for its existence?

Re: Grammar

2005-11-07 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Mon 07 Nov 2005 08:46:17 GMT, [Johan Ingvast] wrote : \_ Hi Has anybody looked into the possibilities of incorporating a grammer checker into lyx. I just found that AbiWord has one, and they are using link-grammer http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link Just wondering /johan This

Re: accented words in lyx 1.3.6 and suse 9.3

2005-11-07 Thread Pablo Ortúzar
On Monday 07 November 2005 10:39, Gisbert, Fernando wrote: I'm sure this topic has been commented before, but i can't find a satisfactory answer in the mail archive. sorry. My problem is that lyx cannot manage accented words (i'm writing a document in spanish, currently) under suse 9.3. I had

Re: accented words in lyx 1.3.6 and suse 9.3

2005-11-07 Thread Pablo Ortúzar
On Monday 07 November 2005 17:23, Pablo Ortúzar wrote: On Monday 07 November 2005 10:39, Gisbert, Fernando wrote: I'm sure this topic has been commented before, but i can't find a satisfactory answer in the mail archive. sorry. My problem is that lyx cannot manage accented words (i'm

Need some trouble shootingideas

2005-11-07 Thread Gunnar
Hi. A colleague of mine is using LyX 1.3.6 on Win XP (very recent installation) but he has tried to change menus to swedish and it ended up in a mess. LyX wouldn't start. I'm now writing from what I remember that he told me. First he couldn't start LyX. It complained about textclass.lst. He

Forget Windows

2005-11-07 Thread James W Dow
LyX is a wonderful word processor. It is best one for writing mathematics directly from the keyboard. Please don't spend a huge time developing it for Windows. Windows will gradually fade away. Putting nice programs like LyX on that operating system just delays people switching to a version of

Re: Pagination problem

2005-11-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Matthew Gates wrote: On Sunday 06 November 2005 22:19, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Matthew Gates wrote: Hi. I started using LyX some time ago for stuff like letters and my CV. Recently I started a rather bigger project - the Stellarium User Guide. Everything's going pretty well, and I've learnt a

Re: TeXLive 2005, LyX and Windows xp

2005-11-07 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 6:12 AM Subject: Re: TeXLive 2005, LyX and Windows xp Stephen Harris wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: Next I installed winlyx 1.3.6 made by Angus. It was necessary to

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-07 Thread Gunnar
On Sunday 06 November 2005 22:05, James W Dow wrote: LyX is a wonderful word processor. It is best one for writing mathematics directly from the keyboard. Please don't spend a huge time developing it for Windows. Windows will gradually fade away. Putting nice programs like LyX on that

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Gunnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Sunday 06 November 2005 22:05, James W Dow wrote: | LyX is a wonderful word processor. It is best one for writing mathematics | directly from the keyboard. Please don't spend a huge time developing it | for Windows. Windows will gradually fade away.

Re: Grammar

2005-11-07 Thread Johan Ingvast
Roy Schestowitz wrote: _/ On Mon 07 Nov 2005 08:46:17 GMT, [Johan Ingvast] wrote : \_ Hi Has anybody looked into the possibilities of incorporating a grammer checker into lyx. I just found that AbiWord has one, and they are using link-grammer http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link This

Re: Need some trouble shootingideas

2005-11-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gunnar wrote: Hi. A colleague of mine is using LyX 1.3.6 on Win XP (very recent installation) but he has tried to change menus to swedish and it ended up in a mess. LyX wouldn't start. I'm now writing from what I remember that he told me. First he couldn't start LyX. It complained about

figures blank in pdf in lyx1.3.6 + OSX

2005-11-07 Thread Caspar
hi, i've just migrated from one OSX laptop to brand new one and though the mac automated user update copied most of my apps files. it seems like couldn't quite get all my environment settings right for LyX. so I have reinstalled teTeX, LyX 1.3.6, etc. It all works except that no

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-07 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/6/05, James W Dow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LyX is a wonderful word processor. It is best one for writing mathematics directly from the keyboard. Please don't spend a huge time developing it for Windows. Windows will gradually fade away. Putting nice programs like LyX on that operating

\usepackage[dvips]{geometry}: How?

2005-11-07 Thread Jim Osborn
I'd like to take advantage of xdvik's ability to sense the paper size from the dvi file, as recommended in the xdvi man page, by putting the subject line in the latex source. It works fine in a custom class file, but when I put that line in the Preamble of an ordinary Article class I get this

Re: \usepackage[dvips]{geometry}: How?

2005-11-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jim Osborn wrote: I'd like to take advantage of xdvik's ability to sense the paper size from the dvi file, as recommended in the xdvi man page, by putting the subject line in the latex source. It works fine in a custom class file, but when I put that line in the Preamble of an ordinary Article

Help on article(IEEEtran) document class

2005-11-07 Thread 조승래
Dear Lyx users, I am using article(IEEEtran) document class for the paper. In this document class, there is a biography section that gets attached at the end of the paper. When viewed from the dvi viewer, there shows a square box with word inscribed, PLACE PHOTO HERE. How do you incorporate

Re: \usepackage[dvips]{geometry}: How?

2005-11-07 Thread Jim Osborn
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 6:22:51PM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Fortunately, options can be set with \geometry{}, and invocations of that macro are cumulative. So try \geometry{dvips} in your preamble and see if that works. It does indeed. Thanks, Paul! Jim

Suggestion

2005-11-07 Thread Alex Streit
Hi all, I am using LyX 1.3.6 (Mac), although I've noticed the same behaviour on Linux and Windows builds. One thing that keeps getting me is that I find the selection behaviour un-intuitive. Because it is very much a character - to - character selection, which makes it hard to select and

FW: accented words in lyx 1.3.6 and suse 9.3

2005-11-07 Thread Gisbert, Fernando
well, thanks pablo. at the moment i cannot upgrade to suse 10 as i am developing under suse 9.3 at work and we need some rest before upgrading. thanks very much -Original Message- From: Pablo Ortúzar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 11/7/2005 5:23 PM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Sven Schreiber
James W Dow schrieb: LyX is a wonderful word processor. It is best one for writing mathematics directly from the keyboard. Please don't spend a huge time developing it for Windows. Windows will gradually fade away. Putting nice programs like LyX on that operating system just delays people

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Gour
Lars Gullik Bjønnes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Well depends on the effort needed to make it happen... and since we are in the Open Source world it is really is the community on the operating systems in question that should to the work to make it happen. I agree. LyX is developed on

Re: TeXLive 2005, LyX and Windows xp

2005-11-08 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Jean-Pierre Chrétien [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 9:54 AM Subject: Re: TeXLive 2005, LyX and Windows xp Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stephen Harris wrote: A version of MikTeX (called ProTeXt)

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Marc J. Driftmeyer
Okay now what you just said spits on the entire *nix community. I myself use LyX less than I do LaTeX with Kile on Debian [don't get me started with the transition LyX is having with the Debian upgrades after Sarge] and I use LyX for OS X and TeXShop for OS X. This particular section is

Re: TeXLive 2005, LyX and Windows xp

2005-11-08 Thread Jean-Pierre Chrétien
Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Original Message - From: Jean-Pierre Chrétien [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 9:54 AM Subject: Re: TeXLive 2005, LyX and Windows xp Angus Leeming leeming at ... writes: [...] Should we

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Gour
Marc J. Driftmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So if I read this correctly, because a Win32 port of LyX has been made possible to show the Windows User the Power of the UNIX/Linux World Design approach to Software and what Free Tools can produce using the TeX/LaTeX systems and their many

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Gour
Sven Schreiber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There is no way that they switch OS because we need some specialized apps that only run under Windows. (Please don't reply with hints on wine, qemu, etc., I've tried it all.) What app you have that don't run under vmware? Bottom line: If Angus (and

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Gour [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I'd also like to see more focus (especially) on GTK+. The only way to make that happen is to get someone to do it, or do it yourself. There is not really much developer attention on gtk. -- Lgb

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Helge Hafting
Gour wrote: Marc J. Driftmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So if I read this correctly, because a Win32 port of LyX has been made possible to show the Windows User the Power of the UNIX/Linux World Design approach to Software and what Free Tools can produce using the TeX/LaTeX systems

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Sven Schreiber
Before this develops into a flamewar, let me rectify something: I *like* Linux more than I like Windows, but that doesn't change the fact that some very specialized apps simply don't exist on *nix. I'm very glad though that many open-source apps are cross-platform so that I can work with them.

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread John Coppens
On 08 Nov 2005 13:19:46 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) wrote: Gour [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I'd also like to see more focus (especially) on GTK+. The only way to make that happen is to get someone to do it, or do it yourself. There is not really much developer attention

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Gour
Helge Hafting ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Not really. The win32 version of lyx does not in any way make it a more serious solution. More accessible of course, but no more serious. Who said that? Me? Marc? Now, if we're making wishes - scratch the bloated gtk and go for fltk.

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Gour
Sven Schreiber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi Sven! I don't understand why such a statement results in angry accusations. I hope you didn't take my argument as a angry accusations, at least it was not meant to be so, just a slightly provoking statement to backup your statement :-) People are

Re: Lyx on Windows and layout error

2005-11-08 Thread Banibrata Dutta
Hi Stephen: Thanks for the explanation. I am using WindowsXP Professional (with absolute lates SP's installed). I did a Large ( not Total) MixTex installation. Do you think that matters ? The size difference between Large Total seems to be less than 15MB. I'd certainly perform the actions

Re: TeXLive 2005, LyX and Windows xp

2005-11-08 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Jean-Pierre Chrétien [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 3:24 AM Subject: Re: TeXLive 2005, LyX and Windows xp Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Original Message - From: Jean-Pierre Chrétien

Re: TeXLive 2005, LyX and Windows xp

2005-11-08 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Jean-Pierre Chrétien [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 3:24 AM Subject: Re: TeXLive 2005, LyX and Windows xp Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Original Message - From: Jean-Pierre Chrétien

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Gour
John Coppens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'd have a go at the GTK+ version, in which I am also interested, but I'll surely need a hand, as I am not an ace programmer. Can someone indicate what has to be done? As I wrote earlier, I cannot code, but can contribute my time to testing. Probably

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gour [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 5:15 AM Subject: Re: Forget Windows Gour wrote: Marc J. Driftmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'd also like to see more focus

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Banibrata Dutta
Hi Folks, We may try to wish-away windows or maybe flame-it-down, but the fact is that by saying things like -- don't spend any more effort on developing it further on Windows, what you are saying is turn the development into a prejudiced-OpenSource, not a truely world-hugging OpenSource as

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Angus Leeming
John Coppens wrote: | I'd also like to see more focus (especially) on GTK+. The only way to make that happen is to get someone to do it, or do it yourself. There is not really much developer attention on gtk. I subscribed to this list to get LyX info for Linux, not Windoze. Lately, way

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Gour [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Yes, there is code-share, but every individial port (win32, gtk) takes | away the energy time of devs, and that's why I'd prefer to e.g. have | gtk port which could (if) cover Win32, Linux-like OS-es MaC OS in one | stroke. Note that code share is in the very

Please don't (was Re: Forget Windows)

2005-11-08 Thread William F. Adams
While I agree w/ Marc in wanting a Cocoa / GNUstep front-end for LyX, I would like to echo the statements of Banibrata and others that it's better to have a wide variety, and please don't abandon people who need to use Windows for one reason or other. Having Windows as an option makes LyX far

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Stephen Harris wrote: Yes, I looked at fltk and it is intended to be cross-platform. I've also seen some great screenshots and fltk was used for (and a variation is used for making special effects in movies) porting flpsed using Minsys rather than Cygwin on Windows. The result was as good as

Re: Suggestion

2005-11-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Alex Streit wrote: Hi all, I am using LyX 1.3.6 (Mac), although I've noticed the same behaviour on Linux and Windows builds. One thing that keeps getting me is that I find the selection behaviour un-intuitive. Because it is very much a character - to - character selection, which makes it hard

Re: TeXLive 2005, LyX and Windows xp

2005-11-08 Thread Jean-Pierre Chrétien
Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Original Message - From: Jean-Pierre Chrétien [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 3:24 AM Subject: Re: TeXLive 2005, LyX and Windows xp Stephen Harris techmech at ... writes: The TeXLive

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 8, 2005, at 10:07 AM, Angus Leeming wrote: However, before any eager soul jumps on this frontend bandwagon, I'd like to introduce a note of caution and suggest that you really, really shouldn't create yet another frontend to LyX. Time is limited, there are only so many of us and another

Re: Suggestion

2005-11-08 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Tue 08 Nov 2005 15:09:51 GMT, [Paul A. Rubin] wrote : \_ Alex Streit wrote: Hi all, I am using LyX 1.3.6 (Mac), although I've noticed the same behaviour on Linux and Windows builds. Yes, all are rather uniform in terms of their behaviour. One thing that keeps getting me is

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
Tysdag 8. november 2005 15:57 skreiv Lars Gullik Bjønnes: Gour [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Yes, there is code-share, but every individial port (win32, gtk) takes | away the energy time of devs, and that's why I'd prefer to e.g. have | gtk port which could (if) cover Win32, Linux-like OS-es

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Gour
Lars Gullik Bjønnes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Note that code share is in the very high 90's %. Really? Did not know that. So, it means that, in case qt goes non-gpl or something, it would not be too hard to port to another toolkit? It is packaging that takes time, and you won't get that

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Angus Leeming
William F. Adams wrote: I think we'd all like to see improved core functionality in future releases. The last three or four years have seen increased prettiness and stability and *much* nicer code but little real increase in what LyX can actually do. Now that we have something that's at least

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Ingar == Ingar Pareliussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ingar As a translator I have to say that the number of toolkits Ingar increase the amount of work for the translators as well. Ingar Different toolsets have different ways to specify shortcuts and Ingar each have to be translated manually.

Memoir Install?

2005-11-08 Thread Gill, Jack
I'm a LyX nubie. I'm using Ubuntu 5.10, and have installed LyX via the Ubuntu package manager. How do I install Memoir? Where do I put the sty files, etc? Jack

importing material into figures

2005-11-08 Thread hagit lev
Hi I have lots of material - such as Surfer maps, Origin graphs etc. and I wondered if I can import them directly to Lyx or need to export them first to jpeg and only then import ? Cause I tried to export surfer to EMF, but the result in the DVI file was a huge picture, and when I tried to

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Gour
Ingar Pareliussen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: As a translator I have to say that the number of toolkits increase the amount of work for the translators as well. Different toolsets have different ways to specify shortcuts and each have to be translated manually. Good point. So as a

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Ingar Pareliussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 9:00 AM Subject: Re: Forget Windows So as a translator I would like to have only one toolset to work with, and if I could have chosen I would loved a

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Adrien Rebollo
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit : Ingar == Ingar Pareliussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ingar As a translator I have to say that the number of toolkits Ingar increase the amount of work for the translators as well. Ingar Different toolsets have different ways to specify shortcuts and

Re: importing material into figures

2005-11-08 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Tue 08 Nov 2005 17:32:49 GMT, [hagit lev] wrote : \_ Hi I have lots of material - such as Surfer maps, Origin graphs etc. and I wondered if I can import them directly to Lyx or need to export them first to jpeg and only then import ? Although this depends on various settings

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
Tysdag 8. november 2005 17:59 skreiv Gour: Lars Gullik Bjønnes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Note that code share is in the very high 90's %. So, it means that, in case qt goes non-gpl or something, it would not be too hard to port to another toolkit? Lyx source code was divided in 2000(-01?)

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
Tysdag 8. november 2005 18:48 skreiv Stephen Harris: SH: Hmmm. I like the KDE desktop and looked into the Cygwin port of KDE to Windows, which has been abandoned. Now the effort is to produce a native Windows KDE. I thought I read that this effort relied on Qt (3?) similar to LyX? For the

Re: importing material into figures

2005-11-08 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 8. November 2005 18:32 schrieb hagit lev: Hi I have lots of material - such as Surfer maps, Origin graphs etc. and I wondered if I can import them directly to Lyx or need to export them first to jpeg and only then import ? You can import any figure material directly if you have

Re: Suggestion

2005-11-08 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 8. November 2005 17:47 schrieb Roy Schestowitz: I noticed that too, but never complained. I re-adjusted my mind and got accustomed *over time*. This behaviour is attributed to the LaTeX/LyX for- mat underneath, yet a few tweaks could probably correct this. Selections do

Re: importing material into figures

2005-11-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
hagit lev wrote: Hi I have lots of material - such as Surfer maps, Origin graphs etc. and I wondered if I can import them directly to Lyx or need to export them first to jpeg and only then import ? Cause I tried to export surfer to EMF, but the result in the DVI file was a huge picture, and

Re[2]: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Alex
Dear All, Ingar As a translator I have to say that the number of toolkits Ingar increase the amount of work for the translators as well. Ingar Different toolsets have different ways to specify shortcuts and Ingar each have to be translated manually. JML Note we could make an effort to change

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread William F. Adams
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 define the dialog structure. Yes, but all those lines and the QT

Re: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 8, 2005, at 1:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to create a translation code internally, to handle the differences in GUIs? I have (almost) finshed the translation of Qt strings. It would be useful, If I could reuse all of them, without doublecating thoose strings. This

Re: Re[2]: Forget Windows

2005-11-08 Thread Angus Leeming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, Ingar As a translator I have to say that the number of toolkits Ingar increase the amount of work for the translators as well. Ingar Different toolsets have different ways to specify shortcuts and Ingar each have to be translated manually. JML Note we

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