Re[2]: Perl script for renumbering equations

2007-02-11 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Michael Wojcik apparently wrote: > Assuming Gerard's script is entirely original work, why > bother with a license? I'd just put it in the public > domain. A license is only necessary if the author wants > to restrict rights, and for a relatively small, simple > program

Re: Perl script for renumbering equations

2007-02-11 Thread Michael Wojcik
Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 08 February 2007 13:36, Gerard Ateshian wrote: I wrote a perl script, renumber.pl, for renumbering equations in LyX (attached). I think before you can post this on the Internet and have people use it, you need to give it a license -- GPL V2, GPL V3, BSD, whateve

Re[2]: Perl script for renumbering equations

2007-02-09 Thread Gerard Ateshian
Alan, That's great, thanks. Gerard

Re: Perl script for renumbering equations

2007-02-09 Thread Gerard Ateshian
Georg, Renumbering/relabeling equations is useful when you have a large document (like a book) with very many equations (for example, more than fifty). You quickly run out of names to use for labeling the equations. So you might find that it is easier to simply number them according to

Re: Perl script for renumbering equations

2007-02-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 09 February 2007 11:16, Georg Baum wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Here's one reason. Throughout all my books I have a graphic that > > represents binary search. It's used several times per book, in several > > chapters. If I named them all descriptively, they'd clash. But if I named > > t

Re: Perl script for renumbering equations

2007-02-09 Thread Georg Baum
Steve Litt wrote: > Here's one reason. Throughout all my books I have a graphic that > represents binary search. It's used several times per book, in several > chapters. If I named them all descriptively, they'd clash. But if I named > them both descriptively AND according to where they occur, tha

Re: Perl script for renumbering equations

2007-02-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 09 February 2007 10:20, Georg Baum wrote: > Gerard Ateshian wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I wrote a perl script, renumber.pl, for renumbering equations in LyX > > (attached). It will take existing equation labels and renumber them > > according to the section heading. For example, in Chapter 1

Re: Perl script for renumbering equations

2007-02-09 Thread Georg Baum
Gerard Ateshian wrote: > Hi, > > I wrote a perl script, renumber.pl, for renumbering equations in LyX > (attached). It will take existing equation labels and renumber them > according to the section heading. For example, in Chapter 1, section > 4, subsection 2, equations will be labeled 1.4.2.1

Re[2]: Perl script for renumbering equations

2007-02-09 Thread Alan G Isaac
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/unix/bsd/archives/open-source-licensing-bsd-and-gpl-13990 fwiw, Alan Isaac

Re: Perl script for renumbering equations

2007-02-08 Thread Gerard Ateshian
Steve, Thanks! I am looking into the GPL licensing, then I'll see where I can post it. Gerard

Re: Perl script for renumbering equations

2007-02-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 08 February 2007 13:36, Gerard Ateshian wrote: > Hi, > > I wrote a perl script, renumber.pl, for renumbering equations in LyX > (attached). It will take existing equation labels and renumber them > according to the section heading. For example, in Chapter 1, section > 4, subsection 2,

Perl script for renumbering equations

2007-02-08 Thread Gerard Ateshian
Hi, I wrote a perl script, renumber.pl, for renumbering equations in LyX (attached). It will take existing equation labels and renumber them according to the section heading. For example, in Chapter 1, section 4, subsection 2, equations will be labeled 1.4.2.1, 1.4.2.2, etc. The script