Re: Can't enter extra whitespace when editing.

2007-06-26 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Darren Freeman wrote: > On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 12:47 +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> would find something there, it was a funny thing to do. Remember that >> at that time, the whole unpacked source was 700k (now: 55M), and there >> was only one documentation file :) > > Also only one develop

Re: math toolbar usability suggestion (tiny)

2007-06-08 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
hzluo wrote: >>I am not sure I understand. Do the labels appear under the icons? Do >>we support that? >> >>JMarc > > Current install version do not have an icon for functions popup. > > I think the patch is on the way. > We now have a functions.xpm for that button. > So you will have a 20x20 bu

Re: Shortcuts

2005-04-06 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > Hi > > This is probably obvious and been answered a million times before but is > there a list of all the in built keyboard shortcuts for lyx. > > The post about ERT alerted me to the very useful ctrl-l for the ERT box > and I am sure there must be others that are time sa

Re: Problem with installing LyX 1.3.5 from the source

2004-12-18 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I am trying to install LyX 1.3.5 from the source. I did > > ./configure --with-frontend=qt --with-pspell --prefix=/usr/bin > make > > but when I do > > make install, I get the following error: > > /bin/sh ./../../config/mkinstalldirs /usr/bin/man/man1 > mkdir

Re: [patch] get rid of selection_possible

2004-12-05 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Paul Smith wrote: > Alfredo, > > Could you please explain how to install the patch? Hi Paul, I actually sent it to the wrong list ;-) It doesn't worth the trouble. This is a path for the current cvs version of lyx, which is under development. There are instructions in www.lyx.org on how to insta

[patch] get rid of selection_possible

2004-12-04 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
This ugly global variable seems to not be needed anymore. The functionality (as declared in a comment removed in the patch) is nowadays taken care by the frontends, who only send DRAG events if the PRESS event was inside the workarea too. Of course, I might be missing entirely the point ;-) Teste

Re: short cut for inputing sin, cos, max, min

2004-11-19 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Jianwei Huang wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way of inputting function names such as > "sin", "cos" or "max", "min" without using the math > panal? Say with keyboard shortcuts? If there is no Just type \sin, \cos, \max etc from inside mathed. HTH, Alfredo

Re: Package to draw tree diagrams

2004-11-08 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Hi Paul, Paul Smith wrote: > I would like to draw some tree diagrams but with the possibility of > labeling (near it) each branch. What package do you recommend me? I am > aware that I could achieve my goal with Xfig, but I suspect that it > may exist a simpler way of doing that. You can try gra

Re: Search-replace in math

2004-10-11 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Angus Leeming wrote: >> And which approach is used? > > Alfredo Braunstein implemented a regex search and replace if memory serves > me well. Err... I did, but as a proof of concept of the new iterators (it never went to cvs). Basically there's nothing missing, more or l

Re: Silly Question :-)

2004-09-25 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Jianwei Huang wrote: > I am a little bit confused. Can I do it with the > File->Export->Customize instead of configuring > Edit->preference? There is no such thing. There is a "File->Export->Custom", that is intended as a quick & dirty way of just pipeing the latex file to some custom command. T

Re: Silly Question :-)

2004-09-25 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
On Saturday 25 September 2004 04:54, you wrote: > Hi, Alfredo: Hi > I try to customize the Export command, but could not > succeed. It seems that I can not save what ever > command I put into it. By the way, how to put a button THe interface is a little convoluted. Select the converter on the li

Re: Silly Question :-)

2004-09-24 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Which somehow doesn't stop me from doing it. :-) > > Edit->Preferences->File formats, highlight LaTeX, fill in the Viewer > slot with your favorite text editor or text viewer (with path, if it's > not on your command path), and save. You should now have a View->LaTeX > me

Re: Silly Question :-)

2004-09-24 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
mario wrote: > I got it! > I may customize the Export command, with my preferred viewer (for > ASCII/.tex files). Cute! Hah! that's what you wanted ;-) You can add a button to the toolbar and/or set up keybindings to easy calling the viewer. snif, I'm not very bright today... Alfredo

Re: Silly Question :-)

2004-09-24 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
mario wrote: > Yes, of course :-) Sorry for misunderstanding. > still, I was looking for something on the lyx bars as to open, say, a > side window and see the LaTeX source directly. Actually lyx works internally at a higher level than latex, so this is not possible. Alfredo

Re: Silly Question :-)

2004-09-24 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
mario wrote: > Hi, Hi > how do I see the .tex LaTeX source? > (kind of silly, I know; > or, how Export work? file->export->latex should leave a .tex file with the same name of your .lyx in the same directory. Alfredo

Re: LyX hangs

2004-06-25 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Hi, zong chen wrote: > Hi, > > I have just installed Mandrake 10.0, which comes with LyX 1.3.3. I haven't > used LyX before, so I thought I would try it out. To this end I imported > an old portable LaTex document and tried to generate a PDF-file (using > pdflatex). However, LyX just hangs. I th

Re: Math panel not working

2004-06-04 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Heikki Rantanen wrote: > Hello Hi, > Thanks for a great piece of software! A little problem, however, > appeared with a fresh Lyx 1.3.4 & Debian unstable installation (KDE > 3.2.2). Namely the math panel isn't fully working. The symptoms are: > When I insert a Greek letter or an operator either

Re: babel

2004-04-06 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Silvia Ribeiro Calbo wrote: > Hi People, Hi Silvia, > How can I install Babel in Red Hat? I think that Babel is included with the tetex package supplied by redhat. (you probably have it installed already.) Alfredo

Re: Feature status update

2004-03-26 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Rich Shepard wrote: > I'm curious when we might be seeing two features I want very much to see > included in LyX: > > 1) Closing all open boxes (TeX, Figures, Tables, Footnotes, etc.) after > a > spell check opens them. Either automagically or by a menu/hot key > selection. I am aware of t

Re: lyx forum

2004-03-23 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
roland schmitz wrote: > Hi, > > i was looking for a lyx forum, but i haven't found one. I'm a member of a > few other mailing list too, but often i can't help, but my mailbox is > growing biger and biger. > A solution for me could be "subscribe to the mailing list", "post a > question", "get answ

Re: LyX icon

2004-03-14 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Paul Smith wrote: Hi, > Where from could one get the LyX icon to use it in KDE menus? There's one in LYXDIR/images/lyx.xpm (LYXDIR is often /usr/share/lyx) Alfredo

Re: copy and paste

2004-03-12 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Raphael Clifford wrote: >>You could try to use reLyX (shipped with 1.3.x) for text->lyx conversion I meant TeX, and not "text", but I think you understood. > OK. So the reLyx/tex2lyx method involves making a complete latex > document from the latex text and then converting the latex document to

Re: copy and paste

2004-03-12 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Hi Raphael. Raphael Clifford wrote: > 1) Quite often I want to copy text from one section of a document and > paste it into another. However, if I do that then the maths is pasted > in its latex form and I have to go to every formula and retype it in lyx > maths mode. What should I be doing ins

[patch] get rid of cached Row::foo_fill

2004-03-01 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
The following is a reworked version of yesterday's patch. It separates the three foo_fill and row.x from Row into their own struct RowMetrics. The four of them are used toghether and in three places: getColumnNearX, getCursorX and rowpainter. These three operations are user-interaction related and

Re: Adjusting the zoom factor of xdvi

2004-02-22 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Paul Smith wrote: Hi Paul > I understand your point, but I do not fully agree with it. Frequently, > there are more than one answer to the same question (as the one asked) and > not all answers have the same degree of satisfaction to the one who asks > the question. Therefore, the larger the numb

Re: Limits above and below rather than following

2004-02-07 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Rich Shepard wrote: > OK. That was the problem. Using the math panel was the wrong way to go. > Sigh. \sum worked like a charm. You can also find it in the panel under "big operators". Regards, Alfredo

Re: shortcut for \mbox

2004-02-06 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Vladimir Smagley wrote: > \bind "M-m z" "math-insert \mbox" > > into my .lyx/bind/mykeycuts.bind. Restarted LyX. There is no effect > whatsoever. What an I doing wrong? Dumb question: is .lyx/bind/mykeycuts.bind the one mentioned in (qt version) Edit->Preferences->Look & Feel->

Re: Limits above and below rather than following

2004-02-06 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Rich Shepard wrote: > Anyway, I'm entering an equation (in display mode) using the math panel. > I > want the limits for the Sigma below and above the symbol, not following > the symbol as super- and sub-scripts. From the Sigma-button menu on the > math panel I've tried all four opitions and I

slowness

2004-02-06 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
there's some horrible slowness in the dispatch process near the end of the UserGuide. Some O(n^2) somewhere? Alfredo

Re: Please help me to use nomencl package in LyX to generate list of symbols.

2004-01-14 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
R S Ananda Murthy wrote: > Hello: > > Has anybody used nomencl package to create a list of symbols in LyX? > Please help me to do this. > > I am writing a book in which I want to include a list of symbols used in > the book. I am using Koma-script book class. I am using pdftex to generate > the

Re: questions: selection

2003-11-28 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Nirmal Govind wrote: > We should probably have some sort of a prize for any non-developer > on this list who can provide a satisfactory answer to Alfredo.. :-) oh, it would seems that a prize for developers can be applicable too :-) Alfredo

questions: selection

2003-11-27 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
what's selection.mark() / what's the difference with selection.set()? why the assymetry below (text3.C) -- present in 1.3.x btw : case LFUN_BEGINNINGBUF: if (!selection.mark()) clearSelection(); cursorTop(); finishCha

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Paul A. Rubin wrote: >>> dvi2ps: FATAL-- can't find DVI file "6499i.dvi" > > I interpret that to mean that dvi2ps was started by LyX (which in > particular means that LyX was able to find dvi2ps), but that it was given > an incorrect name for the DVI file (or else was not given the correct > path

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-13 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Soren O'Neill wrote: >>> No exporting (from lyx) to postscript fails: Cannot convert file. >>> Error while executing dvi2ps -t a4 >> >> I'm not sure, but I think that message is consistent with inability to >> find (or open) the DVI file. Wasn't his program called dvips, *not* dvi2ps? Soren: you

Re: Simple (?) printer setup trouble ...

2003-11-11 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Soren O'Neill wrote: >> dvips $$i > > dvips doesnt exist on my system: > bash: dvips: command not found > > assuming your mean dvi2ps $$i, I get: > dvi2ps: FATAL-- can't find DVI file "6499i.dvi" dvips $$i is not supposed to be executed in a shell prompt: in fact your shell is expanding $$ as t

[patch] missing dirty flag

2003-11-06 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Nov 2003 10:07:12 - @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ 2003-11-06 Alfredo Braunstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * lyxfind.C (replaceAll): mark the buffer dirty if something was + replaced + +2003-11-06 Alfredo Braunstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * iterators.[Ch] (ParIterator): new PosIterato

rowbreakpoint is hosed

2003-10-24 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
I may be reading wrongly the code, but but seems to me that rowbreakpoint sets row.endpos() to a value larger ny 1 than it should. I.e. (text.C:LyXText::rowBreakPoint) if (width < 0) { row.endpos(pit->size() + 1); return; } or below pos_type cons

Re: $\mathbb{Z^{d}}$ doesn't show up

2003-10-21 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Raphael Clifford wrote: > I have a seemingly very simply question so apologies if I have missed > the answer in the docs. I am using article (AMS) and when I try to put > in Z^d ( d dimensional points in the integers) the d part doesn't show > at all (in lyx or in the postscript). The latex see

Re: [newbie] inserting a figure with caption

2003-10-12 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Yvon Thoraval wrote: > i'm only able to insert it between Figure #: and the caption text "Un > dinosaure" giving 2 errors. > > althought the tuto says i've to enter the figure BEFORE the caption > that's to say before "Figure #: Un dinosaure" i'm unable to put the > insertion prompt at that place

Re: error compiling lyx 1.3.3

2003-09-27 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Ernesto Jardim wrote: >> Have you compiled sucessfully any other qt program? > Yes, I've compiled version 1.3.2 :) That's a good point ;-). (You didn't upgrade qt inbetween, didn't you?) Try specifying explicitely --with-qt-includes and/or see from the config logs if the qt include dirs are wron

Re: error compiling lyx 1.3.3

2003-09-26 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Ernesto Jardim wrote: > Hi, > > I'm getting these errors compiling lyx 1.3.3 on a SuSE 8.2 box with > upgraded gcc (3.1.1-16). > > Regards > > EJ > > > /usr/lib/qt3/include/qwidget.h:809: error: `width' undeclared (first use This seems to me a bad qt installation. It seems at least that ther

Re: Key bindings

2003-09-24 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Is that with the same frontend? Seems so, I don't see the bug with 1.4.0cvs both frontends, and 1.3.2-qt (I don't have an 1.3.2-xforms build). Alfredo

Re: Key bindings

2003-09-23 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
John Levon wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 04:30:20PM +0200, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: > >> Key [action=257][S-F9] > > it wasn't even recognising S-F9 in my tests a while ago with some user > on #lyx So it was a different problem it would seem. This one is weird: I

Re: Key bindings

2003-09-23 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Rich Shepard wrote: > I received a lot of good advice on how to implement a key binding to > enter > text. Unfortunately, it's not working and I'm not sufficiently > knowledgeable to know why. lyx version? Alfredo

Re: Key bindings

2003-09-23 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 04:30:20PM +0200, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: >> Andre Poenitz wrote: >> [...] >> >> I get with the first (lyx-1.3.2) with -dbg any >> >> action first set to [257] >> action now set to [257] >

Re: Key bindings

2003-09-23 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Andre Poenitz wrote: [...] I get with the first (lyx-1.3.2) with -dbg any action first set to [257] action now set to [257] Key [action=257][S-F9] Found the pseudoaction: [88|environmental impact assesment] LyXFunc::dispatch: action[88] arg[environmental impact assesment] BufferView::Pimpl::Dispa

Re: Key bindings

2003-09-23 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Andre Poenitz wrote: >> \bind "S-F9" "self-insert environmental impact assessment" > > You seem to have found a bug. > > A workaround is: > > \bind "S-F9" "command-sequence self-insert environmental impact > assessment ;" Strange. The first one works for me. Alfredo

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Rich Shepard wrote: > Still, when I press alt-e I get the edit menu. > > What have I missed? Unfortunately, you cannot use any key which is already taken by a menu shortcut (the underlined letters in the menus). So you'll have to choose another key. Alfredo

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Alfredo Braunstein wrote: > \bind "M-i e" "self-insert environmental impact assessment" Of course, if you want it to be bound to alt-e, replace "M-i e" above by "M-e". Alfredo

Re: Shortcut-key expansion

2003-09-22 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Rich Shepard wrote: > Is it possible within LyX to define "hot keys" (e.g., alt-e) which will, > when invoked, enter a string of text into the document? For example, in my > book I write the string, "environmental impact assessment" many, many > times. It would be nice to press a couple of keys

[patch] unneeded full rebreak

2003-09-16 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
This patch avoids doing a full rebreak on buffer switching, which is the reason for the existence of the TextCache. The removed full rebreak is unneeded: it is done in every case (except from buffer switching) above in the same function. The update seems also to be unneeded, as caller functions do

Re: URLs not displayed correctly

2003-07-18 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Andre Poenitz wrote: > I believe there will be some scarce commodities, but beer will not be > amongst them... I'm relieved. I was just about cancelling. :-) Regards, Alfredo

Re: Changing Table Output

2003-07-15 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Jason L W Lynn wrote: > I posted this message to the lyx-devel group, but have gotten no > response. I'm guessing from the lack of response, it was the wrong list > to send to. If this is (again) the wrong mailing list, please point me > toward a more appropriate list. I think both list are cor

Re: compilation problem with Trolltech MacOSX/GPL QT libraries

2003-07-02 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Andre Poenitz wrote: >> Has anyone reported this stupid bug to Troll Tech yet ? > > They are as guilty as we are. Why? Lyx is not a library. IMHO a library is responsible of not polluting the global namespace (and qt way of doing that, btw, seems to be adding a 'q' on front of _almost_ every def

Re: Some info about lyx-qt 1.3.2 segfaults

2003-07-01 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Fernando Perez wrote: > Anyway, enabling core files doesn't seem to help much, as the lyx.org rpms > have no debugging info in them. Sorry, but I don't have time right now to Ah yes, forgot about that. Thanks anyway, Alfredo

Re: Some info about lyx-qt 1.3.2 segfaults

2003-07-01 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > way. Someone suggested that my build might be on top of incompatible > libraries and includes, but did not suggest how to investigate this. It seems that we have to discard this, since you (and others) get the same with the precompiled version/with standard systems.

Re: Some info about lyx-qt 1.3.2 segfaults

2003-07-01 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Fernando Perez wrote: > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > [Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 17855)] > 0x40317212 in QPopupMenu::keyPressEvent(QKeyEvent*) () from > /usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 > (gdb) Killed > > lyx: SIGHUP signal caught > Bye. > [~]> Mutex destroy failure

Re: compilation problem with Trolltech MacOSX/GPL QT libraries

2003-06-24 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Ronald Florence wrote: > Alfredo Braunstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: >> >> > ControlRef. Does it help if you change LyX's ControlRef and all >> > instances to ControlLyXRef or something? >> >> addin

Re: compilation problem with Trolltech MacOSX/GPL QT libraries

2003-06-24 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > ControlRef. Does it help if you change LyX's ControlRef and all instances > to ControlLyXRef or something? adding #define ControlRef ControlLyXRef to the top of src/frontends/controllers/ControlRef.h may just work... Regards, Alfredo

qt+boost symbol clash

2003-06-20 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
qt headers include a nice '#define signals xxx' (puaj) and boost seems to choke on that. if I #include "boost/signals/signal1.hpp" in buffer.h I get a clash in QDocument.C: How to proceed? In file included from /home/ab/lyx-cvs2/boost/boost/signals/slot.hpp:21, from /home/ab/lyx-

Re: lyx 1.3 vs 1.16

2003-06-18 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
by way of Roberto Bernetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > 1. when in math mode and I type a tex sequence in 1.16 it is > automatically, after a typed space, rendered as its graphic meaning. This > in 1.3 doesn't work the text changes only color to red Install ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/

Re: bad font path

2003-06-13 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Joel Uckelman wrote: > There was a post in May that was not replied to concerning the RedHat 9 > RPM for 1.3.2 and a 'bad font path element' error generated by xset: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lyx-users&m=105292758407099&w=2 > > A search of the list archives turn up nothing else that I

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.1 is released

2003-03-20 Thread Alfredo Braunstein
Henrik Edlund wrote: > Take about the same time to compile LyX as it takes Mozilla for > me. Compiling the Linux kernel is about 10-20 times faster than > both. > C++ has always been a lot slower to compile than C. Regards, Alfredo