Question about bold and underline missing buttons

2009-09-21 Thread silvio grosso
Hello everybody,

I am sorry for asking such a trivial question so bear with me :-)
In essence, I would like to know why there are not two buttons, in the Lyx 
interface, to underline or bold a text.

Don't get me wrong.
I know you can perform these two options easily with Lyx :-)
Actually, there are really plenty of ways to do so.
For instance, my preferite way (because it is fast) is to press ctr+b (to 
bold) and ctr+u (to underline).
However, in my opinion, it is a bit strange to have a button in the Lyx's 
interface which allows to emphasize a text 
I am referring to the one with the big E on it (its shortcut is ctr+e).
On the other hand, there are not the two buttons needed to bold or underline.
I suppose there is a reason for it?

Sometimes, when I try to teach Lyx to new-users the first question they asked 
me is: where are those 2 buttons.
These two buttons, for example, are available in softwares such as TexMaker or 
WinEdit.
Most of all, I suppose, it occurs because most users are used to work with text 
editors such as Word or  OpenOffice Writer :-)

Best regards,

Silvio






Question about bold and underline missing buttons

2009-09-21 Thread silvio grosso
Hello everybody,

I am sorry for asking such a trivial question so bear with me :-)
In essence, I would like to know why there are not two buttons, in the Lyx 
interface, to underline or bold a text.

Don't get me wrong.
I know you can perform these two options easily with Lyx :-)
Actually, there are really plenty of ways to do so.
For instance, my preferite way (because it is fast) is to press ctr+b (to 
bold) and ctr+u (to underline).
However, in my opinion, it is a bit strange to have a button in the Lyx's 
interface which allows to emphasize a text 
I am referring to the one with the big E on it (its shortcut is ctr+e).
On the other hand, there are not the two buttons needed to bold or underline.
I suppose there is a reason for it?

Sometimes, when I try to teach Lyx to new-users the first question they asked 
me is: where are those 2 buttons.
These two buttons, for example, are available in softwares such as TexMaker or 
WinEdit.
Most of all, I suppose, it occurs because most users are used to work with text 
editors such as Word or  OpenOffice Writer :-)

Best regards,

Silvio






Question about bold and underline "missing" buttons

2009-09-21 Thread silvio grosso
Hello everybody,

I am sorry for asking such a trivial question so bear with me :-)
In essence, I would like to know why there are not two buttons, in the Lyx 
interface, to underline or bold a text.

Don't get me wrong.
I know you can perform these two options easily with Lyx :-)
Actually, there are really plenty of ways to do so.
For instance, my "preferite" way (because it is fast) is to press ctr+b (to 
bold) and ctr+u (to underline).
However, in my opinion, it is a bit "strange" to have a button in the Lyx's 
interface which allows to emphasize a text 
I am referring to the one with the big E on it (its shortcut is ctr+e).
On the other hand, there are not the two buttons needed to bold or underline.
I suppose there is a reason for it?

Sometimes, when I try to teach Lyx to new-users the first question they asked 
me is: "where are those 2 buttons".
These two buttons, for example, are available in softwares such as TexMaker or 
WinEdit.
Most of all, I suppose, it occurs because most users are used to work with text 
editors such as Word or  OpenOffice Writer :-)

Best regards,

Silvio






Typing some text in Lyx with capital letters

2009-07-16 Thread silvio grosso

Hello everybody,

I am working with Lyx 1.6.3 on Windows xp (sp3) and I have a question about 
punctuation.

In short, I spend most of my working time with softwares like Microsoft Word or 
OpenOffice Writer and I am wondering if is it possible, with Lyx, to have the 
first letter always in capital letters (namely capitalised) after a punctuation 
which requires that. 
At least in Italian, French, English after a punctuation such as ? ! . (period) 
etc, you very often need to have the first letter of the new sentence 
capitalised.

For instance, with OpenOffice Writer when I type: are you all right? Yes, I 
am the Y of yes is automatically changed in capital letter (that is, Yes 
instead of yes) .
On the contrary, with Lyx I have to change the first letter manually every 
time. Obviously, I know it is not a great deal :-)
Nevertheless, in my opinion,  when you have to type a lot of text every day 
this option is really useful because it saves you a lot of time (you don't have 
to press the button Shift to make the first letter capitalised).

To sum up, is there an option in Lyx to have the same behaviour about capital 
letters as Writer or Word?

Best regards,

Silvio





Typing some text in Lyx with capital letters

2009-07-16 Thread silvio grosso

Hello everybody,

I am working with Lyx 1.6.3 on Windows xp (sp3) and I have a question about 
punctuation.

In short, I spend most of my working time with softwares like Microsoft Word or 
OpenOffice Writer and I am wondering if is it possible, with Lyx, to have the 
first letter always in capital letters (namely capitalised) after a punctuation 
which requires that. 
At least in Italian, French, English after a punctuation such as ? ! . (period) 
etc, you very often need to have the first letter of the new sentence 
capitalised.

For instance, with OpenOffice Writer when I type: are you all right? Yes, I 
am the Y of yes is automatically changed in capital letter (that is, Yes 
instead of yes) .
On the contrary, with Lyx I have to change the first letter manually every 
time. Obviously, I know it is not a great deal :-)
Nevertheless, in my opinion,  when you have to type a lot of text every day 
this option is really useful because it saves you a lot of time (you don't have 
to press the button Shift to make the first letter capitalised).

To sum up, is there an option in Lyx to have the same behaviour about capital 
letters as Writer or Word?

Best regards,

Silvio





Typing some text in Lyx with capital letters

2009-07-16 Thread silvio grosso

Hello everybody,

I am working with Lyx 1.6.3 on Windows xp (sp3) and I have a question about 
punctuation.

In short, I spend most of my working time with softwares like Microsoft Word or 
OpenOffice Writer and I am wondering if is it possible, with Lyx, to have the 
first letter always in capital letters (namely capitalised) after a punctuation 
which "requires" that. 
At least in Italian, French, English after a punctuation such as ? ! . (period) 
etc, you very often need to have the first letter of the new sentence 
capitalised.

For instance, with OpenOffice Writer when I type: "are you all right? Yes, I 
am" the Y of yes is automatically changed in capital letter (that is, Yes 
instead of yes) .
On the contrary, with Lyx I have to change the first letter manually every 
time. Obviously, I know it is not a great deal :-)
Nevertheless, in my opinion,  when you have to type a lot of text every day 
this option is really useful because it saves you a lot of time (you don't have 
to press the button Shift to make the first letter capitalised).

To sum up, is there an option in Lyx to have the same behaviour about capital 
letters as Writer or Word?

Best regards,

Silvio





Donations for the Lyx project: Compare two Lyx documents

2009-07-09 Thread silvio grosso

Hello everybody,

For anyone interested in the option to compare two Lyx documents there is the 
opportunity to donate some money to develop such feature.
The link in the Lyx webpage to get more information is: 
http://www.lyx.org/Donate
This feature will be developed by Lyx's developers as soon as It reaches the 
minimum money to get the project started.

More precisely, the projects aims at compare two documents and generate a third 
document where the differences between the two documents will be highlighted 
using the track change feature (Menu Edit-Change Tracking-Enable Change 
Tracking if you don't know about it).
So you would have to open the menu File-Compare two Documents then select 
the two documents with a file dialogue one after the other and 'voila', LyX 
will generate the third document and open it automatically for you.

At present, there are 1270 euros available but the project needs still 730 
euros to being accepted.

In conclusion, if you are interested in this new feature and you wish to donate 
a bit of your spare money this project allows you to do so :-)

Best regards,

Silvio






Re: Donations for the Lyx project: Compare two Lyx documents

2009-07-09 Thread silvio grosso
Hello Luca,

Just a curiosity. Why do they need money, or better, a certain amount of 
money? Are they using something like Rentacoder? Because if this is not the 
case, I do not understand the need for money.

I am not a Lyx's developer, as a consequence I can't answer you.
I have only donated a bit of my money for this project :-)
Nevertheless, more technical information about how this project could be 
developed is here: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/1897?id=1897

Let'us hope Lyx's developers will add some more explanations on this mailing 
list ;-)

Best regards,

Silvio


  

Re: Donations for the Lyx project: Compare two Lyx documents

2009-07-09 Thread silvio grosso

Hello everybody,

I would like to add something about what  Manveru explained about money and 
Open-source projects,  that is: 

Manveru wrote:
A lot of open source developers are freelancers,
so they income depends on number of projects they are able to realize
for their clients. As you probably know money are needed to cover
existence cost like accommodation, food, etc

In my opinion, it is always a bit tricky to ask about donating money for 
Open-source developers.
Some users assume that Open-source softwares must be always developed and 
released for free.
Actually, in my opinion, in the real world, it happens often the contrary.

For instance, Ubuntu is developed thanks to the money of its multi-millionaire 
founder, that is, Mark Shuttleworth.
OpenOffice, lives thanks to the backup of Sun (now Oracle) and Novell (even Ibm 
has its hands on it).
Ardour, probably the most powerful open-source software to modify your music 
tracks, lives only thanks to the money donated by its users (it gets 5000$ 
every month).
Many Open-source projects (e.g Gimp, Scribus, Inkscape, Blender etc) flourish 
thanks to Google, through its Summer code projects (for each project 
sponsored, Google gives 5000 $).

To sum up, if you wish to have a certain feature, money is often the best way 
to get it :-)
Even in the Open-source world ;-)

Best regards,

Silvio


   


Donations for the Lyx project: Compare two Lyx documents

2009-07-09 Thread silvio grosso

Hello everybody,

For anyone interested in the option to compare two Lyx documents there is the 
opportunity to donate some money to develop such feature.
The link in the Lyx webpage to get more information is: 
http://www.lyx.org/Donate
This feature will be developed by Lyx's developers as soon as It reaches the 
minimum money to get the project started.

More precisely, the projects aims at compare two documents and generate a third 
document where the differences between the two documents will be highlighted 
using the track change feature (Menu Edit-Change Tracking-Enable Change 
Tracking if you don't know about it).
So you would have to open the menu File-Compare two Documents then select 
the two documents with a file dialogue one after the other and 'voila', LyX 
will generate the third document and open it automatically for you.

At present, there are 1270 euros available but the project needs still 730 
euros to being accepted.

In conclusion, if you are interested in this new feature and you wish to donate 
a bit of your spare money this project allows you to do so :-)

Best regards,

Silvio






Re: Donations for the Lyx project: Compare two Lyx documents

2009-07-09 Thread silvio grosso
Hello Luca,

Just a curiosity. Why do they need money, or better, a certain amount of 
money? Are they using something like Rentacoder? Because if this is not the 
case, I do not understand the need for money.

I am not a Lyx's developer, as a consequence I can't answer you.
I have only donated a bit of my money for this project :-)
Nevertheless, more technical information about how this project could be 
developed is here: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/1897?id=1897

Let'us hope Lyx's developers will add some more explanations on this mailing 
list ;-)

Best regards,

Silvio


  

Re: Donations for the Lyx project: Compare two Lyx documents

2009-07-09 Thread silvio grosso

Hello everybody,

I would like to add something about what  Manveru explained about money and 
Open-source projects,  that is: 

Manveru wrote:
A lot of open source developers are freelancers,
so they income depends on number of projects they are able to realize
for their clients. As you probably know money are needed to cover
existence cost like accommodation, food, etc

In my opinion, it is always a bit tricky to ask about donating money for 
Open-source developers.
Some users assume that Open-source softwares must be always developed and 
released for free.
Actually, in my opinion, in the real world, it happens often the contrary.

For instance, Ubuntu is developed thanks to the money of its multi-millionaire 
founder, that is, Mark Shuttleworth.
OpenOffice, lives thanks to the backup of Sun (now Oracle) and Novell (even Ibm 
has its hands on it).
Ardour, probably the most powerful open-source software to modify your music 
tracks, lives only thanks to the money donated by its users (it gets 5000$ 
every month).
Many Open-source projects (e.g Gimp, Scribus, Inkscape, Blender etc) flourish 
thanks to Google, through its Summer code projects (for each project 
sponsored, Google gives 5000 $).

To sum up, if you wish to have a certain feature, money is often the best way 
to get it :-)
Even in the Open-source world ;-)

Best regards,

Silvio


   


Donations for the Lyx project: Compare two Lyx documents

2009-07-09 Thread silvio grosso

Hello everybody,

For anyone interested in the option to compare two Lyx documents there is the 
opportunity to donate some money to develop such feature.
The link in the Lyx webpage to get more information is: 
http://www.lyx.org/Donate
This feature will be developed by Lyx's developers as soon as It reaches the 
minimum money to get the project started.

More precisely, the projects aims at compare two documents and generate a third 
document where the differences between the two documents will be highlighted 
using the track change feature (Menu "Edit->Change Tracking->Enable Change 
Tracking" if you don't know about it).
So you would have to open the menu "File->Compare two Documents" then select 
the two documents with a file dialogue one after the other and 'voila', LyX 
will generate the third document and open it automatically for you.

At present, there are 1270 euros available but the project needs still 730 
euros to being accepted.

In conclusion, if you are interested in this new feature and you wish to donate 
a bit of your spare money this project allows you to do so :-)

Best regards,

Silvio






Re: Donations for the Lyx project: Compare two Lyx documents

2009-07-09 Thread silvio grosso
Hello Luca,

>Just a curiosity. Why do they need money, or better, a certain >amount of 
>money? Are they using something like Rentacoder? >Because if this is not the 
>case, I do not understand the need for >money.

I am not a Lyx's developer, as a consequence I can't answer you.
I have only donated a bit of my money for this project :-)
Nevertheless, more technical information about how this project could be 
developed is here: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/1897?id=1897

Let'us hope Lyx's developers will add some more explanations on this mailing 
list ;-)

Best regards,

Silvio


  

Re: Donations for the Lyx project: Compare two Lyx documents

2009-07-09 Thread silvio grosso

Hello everybody,

I would like to add something about what  Manveru explained about money and 
Open-source projects,  that is: 

Manveru wrote:
>A lot of open source developers are freelancers,
>so they income depends on number of projects they are able to realize
>for their clients. As you probably know money are needed to cover
>existence cost like accommodation, food, etc

In my opinion, it is always a bit "tricky" to ask about donating money for 
Open-source developers.
Some users assume that Open-source softwares must be always developed and 
released for free.
Actually, in my opinion, in the "real world", it happens often the contrary.

For instance, Ubuntu is developed thanks to the money of its multi-millionaire 
founder, that is, Mark Shuttleworth.
OpenOffice, lives thanks to the backup of Sun (now Oracle) and Novell (even Ibm 
has its hands on it).
Ardour, probably the most powerful open-source software to modify your music 
tracks, lives only thanks to the money donated by its users (it gets 5000$ 
every month).
Many Open-source projects (e.g Gimp, Scribus, Inkscape, Blender etc) flourish 
thanks to Google, through its "Summer code projects" (for each project 
sponsored, Google gives 5000 $).

To sum up, if you wish to have a certain feature, money is often the best way 
to get it :-)
Even in the Open-source world ;-)

Best regards,

Silvio


   


Continuous spell checking donations: some questions

2009-03-20 Thread silvio grosso

Hello everybody,

I would like to donate something more to the continuous spell checking 
project. 
The link is: http://www.lyx.org/Donate. 
At present, It lacks 237 euros to be accepted by Abdelrazak Younes

First of all, I know it might be obvious but I would like to know whether this 
feature is going to work on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac. I suppose the 
answer is positive...

Secondly, I read the roadmap about Lyx 2 and there is an interesting 
improvement related to the spell checking.
More precisely, I noticed Jurgen Spitzmüller has introduced support for the 
MyThes thesaurus library which is what OpenOffice uses.  The link is: 
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20
I am wondering if this will apply to the continuous spell checking feature. 
In short, the dictionaries are going to be the same? 
I am interested mainly in the Italian dictionary because I know all thesaurus 
for Italian are really good in OpenOffice.

Thirdly, I would like to know whether this extension could damage the Lyx 
performances. 
If this happens, needless to say, It could be disabled by default... 
In many softwares as OpenOffice using the spell checker on windows xp I have 
never noticed any problem...
Nevertheless Lyx is a very different software...

To sum up, is there a date regarding the availability of this feature (provided 
the 1000 euro are reached soon)?
I am aware it is a really early to ask  about the Lyx 2 version but I am 
wondering if you developers have a rough idea regarding its release date. Maybe 
after summer 2009?
I looked for in the roadmap section but I didn't find anything.

Best regards,

Silvio





Continuous spell checking donations: some questions

2009-03-20 Thread silvio grosso

Hello everybody,

I would like to donate something more to the continuous spell checking 
project. 
The link is: http://www.lyx.org/Donate. 
At present, It lacks 237 euros to be accepted by Abdelrazak Younes

First of all, I know it might be obvious but I would like to know whether this 
feature is going to work on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac. I suppose the 
answer is positive...

Secondly, I read the roadmap about Lyx 2 and there is an interesting 
improvement related to the spell checking.
More precisely, I noticed Jurgen Spitzmüller has introduced support for the 
MyThes thesaurus library which is what OpenOffice uses.  The link is: 
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20
I am wondering if this will apply to the continuous spell checking feature. 
In short, the dictionaries are going to be the same? 
I am interested mainly in the Italian dictionary because I know all thesaurus 
for Italian are really good in OpenOffice.

Thirdly, I would like to know whether this extension could damage the Lyx 
performances. 
If this happens, needless to say, It could be disabled by default... 
In many softwares as OpenOffice using the spell checker on windows xp I have 
never noticed any problem...
Nevertheless Lyx is a very different software...

To sum up, is there a date regarding the availability of this feature (provided 
the 1000 euro are reached soon)?
I am aware it is a really early to ask  about the Lyx 2 version but I am 
wondering if you developers have a rough idea regarding its release date. Maybe 
after summer 2009?
I looked for in the roadmap section but I didn't find anything.

Best regards,

Silvio





Continuous spell checking donations: some questions

2009-03-20 Thread silvio grosso

Hello everybody,

I would like to donate something more to the "continuous spell checking 
project". 
The link is: http://www.lyx.org/Donate. 
At present, It lacks 237 euros to be accepted by Abdelrazak Younes

First of all, I know it might be obvious but I would like to know whether this 
feature is going to work on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac. I suppose the 
answer is positive...

Secondly, I read the roadmap about Lyx 2 and there is an interesting 
improvement related to the spell checking.
More precisely, I noticed Jurgen Spitzmüller has introduced support for the 
MyThes thesaurus library which is what OpenOffice uses.  The link is: 
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20
I am wondering if this will apply to the continuous spell checking feature. 
In short, the dictionaries are going to be the same? 
I am interested mainly in the Italian dictionary because I know all thesaurus 
for Italian are really good in OpenOffice.

Thirdly, I would like to know whether this extension could damage the Lyx 
performances. 
If this happens, needless to say, It could be disabled by default... 
In many softwares as OpenOffice using the spell checker on windows xp I have 
never noticed any problem...
Nevertheless Lyx is a very different software...

To sum up, is there a date regarding the availability of this feature (provided 
the 1000 euro are reached soon)?
I am aware it is a really early to ask  about the Lyx 2 version but I am 
wondering if you developers have a rough idea regarding its release date. Maybe 
after summer 2009?
I looked for in the roadmap section but I didn't find anything.

Best regards,

Silvio