Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-15 Thread Martijn Brouwer
At 10:24 PM 6/7/00 +0200, you wrote: On 07-Jun-2000 Roland Krause wrote: rant Why GUI independece? Drop xforms now! Port LyX to KDE rant/ Never! With xforms I can run LyX on my 486, with KDE or gnome I can just open LyX in the time I now need to write my whole thesis! Besides, there is

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-15 Thread Martijn Brouwer
At 03:07 PM 6/15/00 +0200, you wrote: How well do latest LyX versions run on a 486? Is is better/worse than older versions? Just curious. I can't tell you, I am just beginning to work seriously with LyX. (Master thesis). But version 1.1.2 runs fine. Of course running Latex takes some time, but I

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-15 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Martijn Brouwer wrote: At 10:24 PM 6/7/00 +0200, you wrote: On 07-Jun-2000 Roland Krause wrote: rant Why GUI independece? Drop xforms now! Port LyX to KDE rant/ Never! With xforms I can run LyX on my 486, with KDE or gnome I can just open LyX in the time I now

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-15 Thread Martijn Brouwer
At 10:24 PM 6/7/00 +0200, you wrote: On 07-Jun-2000 Roland Krause wrote: rant Why GUI independece? Drop xforms now! Port LyX to KDE rant/ Never! With xforms I can run LyX on my 486, with KDE or gnome I can just open LyX in the time I now need to write my whole thesis! Besides, there is

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-15 Thread Martijn Brouwer
At 03:07 PM 6/15/00 +0200, you wrote: How well do latest LyX versions run on a 486? Is is better/worse than older versions? Just curious. I can't tell you, I am just beginning to work seriously with LyX. (Master thesis). But version 1.1.2 runs fine. Of course running Latex takes some time, but I

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-15 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Martijn Brouwer wrote: At 10:24 PM 6/7/00 +0200, you wrote: On 07-Jun-2000 Roland Krause wrote: rant Why GUI independece? Drop xforms now! Port LyX to KDE rant/ Never! With xforms I can run LyX on my 486, with KDE or gnome I can just open LyX in the time I now

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-15 Thread Martijn Brouwer
At 10:24 PM 6/7/00 +0200, you wrote: >On 07-Jun-2000 Roland Krause wrote: > >> >> Why GUI independece? Drop xforms now! Port LyX to KDE >> Never! With xforms I can run LyX on my 486, with KDE or gnome I can just open LyX in the time I now need to write my whole thesis! Besides, there is

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-15 Thread Martijn Brouwer
At 03:07 PM 6/15/00 +0200, you wrote: >How well do latest LyX versions run on a 486? Is is better/worse than >older versions? Just curious. I can't tell you, I am just beginning to work seriously with LyX. (Master thesis). But version 1.1.2 runs fine. Of course running Latex takes some time, but

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-15 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Martijn Brouwer wrote: > At 10:24 PM 6/7/00 +0200, you wrote: > >On 07-Jun-2000 Roland Krause wrote: > > > >> > >> Why GUI independece? Drop xforms now! Port LyX to KDE > >> > Never! With xforms I can run LyX on my 486, with KDE or gnome I can just > open LyX in the time I

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Martijn Brouwer wrote: I don't know whether LaTeX supports this, but I would like to have the possibility to make a float having half the width of a page with the text flowing around it. Often I have a quite large amount of graphs that show just some measurement points and a fitted straight

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-13 Thread Martijn Brouwer
I don't know whether LaTeX supports this, but I would like to have the possibility to make a float having half the width of a page with the text flowing around it. Often I have a quite large amount of graphs that show just some measurement points and a fitted straight line. Having full width

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Martijn Brouwer wrote: I don't know whether LaTeX supports this, but I would like to have the possibility to make a float having half the width of a page with the text flowing around it. Often I have a quite large amount of graphs that show just some measurement points and a fitted straight

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-13 Thread Martijn Brouwer
I don't know whether LaTeX supports this, but I would like to have the possibility to make a float having half the width of a page with the text flowing around it. Often I have a quite large amount of graphs that show just some measurement points and a fitted straight line. Having full width

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-13 Thread Herbert Voss
Martijn Brouwer wrote: > > I don't know whether LaTeX supports this, but I would like to have the > possibility to make a float having half the width of a page with the text > flowing around it. Often I have a quite large amount of graphs that show > just some measurement points and a fitted

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-13 Thread Martijn Brouwer
I don't know whether LaTeX supports this, but I would like to have the possibility to make a float having half the width of a page with the text flowing around it. Often I have a quite large amount of graphs that show just some measurement points and a fitted straight line. Having full width

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-08 Thread gissi
I am a "wordish" user... ;-) A feature I would like is the possibility to set graphically the bounding box of EPS files, a sort of "crop", is this the right name? I don't know if there is already a program that does that. Emanuele Gissi

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-08 Thread gissi
I am a "wordish" user... ;-) A feature I would like is the possibility to set graphically the bounding box of EPS files, a sort of "crop", is this the right name? I don't know if there is already a program that does that. Emanuele Gissi

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-08 Thread gissi
I am a "wordish" user... ;-) A feature I would like is the possibility to set graphically the bounding box of EPS files, a sort of "crop", is this the right name? I don't know if there is already a program that does that. Emanuele Gissi

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Stephan E. Schlierf
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Baruch Even wrote: Hello, I'd like to solicit requests and ideas regarding the "insert Figure" option that is present in LyX, as there is a need to reimplement it, I thought it would be a good idea if peoples on the list would send me the list of their needs and wants

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Staffan" == Staffan Ringbom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Staffan In my opinion, the insert figure should support images that Staffan could be directly used by pdflatex. pdflatex and eps figures Staffan seems to be a bad mix. Is a conversion to eps files at the Staffan moment the best strategy?

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 19:56:33 +0300 (IDT) From: Baruch Even [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LyXnichians [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features Hello, I'd like to solicit requests and ideas regarding the "insert Figure" option that is present in LyX, as there

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Stefano Bianchi
I dont' know if newer versions support it (I use 1.0.3), but what I really missed was the epsfig possibility to cut a box in an eps page with bblx, , and clip=0. I had to write the latex command (which works fine). Stefano

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Roland Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Great, finally someone to pick this up. | If I were you I'd also ask the developers, I think they have very | detailed ideas of how the whole thing should be dealt with already. As | far as I understand, figures should _not_ be converted into eps since |

Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Niklas Werner
Well, maybe I missed something, but there's one big thing: My copy of LyX (1.1.5pre3) is still not able to draw a border around an included image (it does in the LyX-window, but neither in latex,ps, nor pdf). I always had to do it by hand using some LaTeX-commands I've forgotten because I put

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Niklas" == Niklas Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Niklas Well, maybe I missed something, but there's one big thing: My Niklas copy of LyX (1.1.5pre3) is still not able to draw a border Niklas around an included image (it does in the LyX-window, but Niklas neither in latex,ps, nor pdf).

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | This kind of feature is not related to images, IMO. What we need is a | text inset which produces framed boxes. It will be easy when we get | text insets working. Agree, this is the right approach., Lgb

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Roland Krause
I certainly agree that eps is the format of choice for Latex when things are going to be printed. I noted though that there are many people out there that have reverted to create pdf documents, somewhat as a last resort against having to do M$soft. Anyway for pdflatex eps is not an option. Also

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Alexander Volovics
On 07-Jun-2000 Roland Krause wrote: rant Why GUI independece? Drop xforms now! Port LyX to KDE rant/ Why GUI independece? Drop xforms now! Port Lyx to GTK/GNOME ;-) Alexander Volovics

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Stephan E. Schlierf
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Baruch Even wrote: Hello, I'd like to solicit requests and ideas regarding the "insert Figure" option that is present in LyX, as there is a need to reimplement it, I thought it would be a good idea if peoples on the list would send me the list of their needs and wants

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Staffan" == Staffan Ringbom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Staffan In my opinion, the insert figure should support images that Staffan could be directly used by pdflatex. pdflatex and eps figures Staffan seems to be a bad mix. Is a conversion to eps files at the Staffan moment the best strategy?

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 19:56:33 +0300 (IDT) From: Baruch Even [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LyXnichians [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features Hello, I'd like to solicit requests and ideas regarding the "insert Figure" option that is present in LyX, as there

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Stefano Bianchi
I dont' know if newer versions support it (I use 1.0.3), but what I really missed was the epsfig possibility to cut a box in an eps page with bblx, , and clip=0. I had to write the latex command (which works fine). Stefano

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Roland Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Great, finally someone to pick this up. | If I were you I'd also ask the developers, I think they have very | detailed ideas of how the whole thing should be dealt with already. As | far as I understand, figures should _not_ be converted into eps since |

Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Niklas Werner
Well, maybe I missed something, but there's one big thing: My copy of LyX (1.1.5pre3) is still not able to draw a border around an included image (it does in the LyX-window, but neither in latex,ps, nor pdf). I always had to do it by hand using some LaTeX-commands I've forgotten because I put

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
"Niklas" == Niklas Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Niklas Well, maybe I missed something, but there's one big thing: My Niklas copy of LyX (1.1.5pre3) is still not able to draw a border Niklas around an included image (it does in the LyX-window, but Niklas neither in latex,ps, nor pdf).

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | This kind of feature is not related to images, IMO. What we need is a | text inset which produces framed boxes. It will be easy when we get | text insets working. Agree, this is the right approach., Lgb

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Roland Krause
I certainly agree that eps is the format of choice for Latex when things are going to be printed. I noted though that there are many people out there that have reverted to create pdf documents, somewhat as a last resort against having to do M$soft. Anyway for pdflatex eps is not an option. Also

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Alexander Volovics
On 07-Jun-2000 Roland Krause wrote: rant Why GUI independece? Drop xforms now! Port LyX to KDE rant/ Why GUI independece? Drop xforms now! Port Lyx to GTK/GNOME ;-) Alexander Volovics

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Stephan E. Schlierf
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Baruch Even wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to solicit requests and ideas regarding the "insert Figure" > option that is present in LyX, as there is a need to reimplement it, I > thought it would be a good idea if peoples on the list would send me the > list of their needs and

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Staffan" == Staffan Ringbom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Staffan> In my opinion, the insert figure should support images that Staffan> could be directly used by pdflatex. pdflatex and eps figures Staffan> seems to be a bad mix. Is a conversion to eps files at the Staffan> moment the best

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 19:56:33 +0300 (IDT) >>From: Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: LyXnichians <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features >> >>Hello, >> >>I'd like to solicit requests and ideas r

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Stefano Bianchi
I dont' know if newer versions support it (I use 1.0.3), but what I really missed was the epsfig possibility to cut a box in an eps page with bblx, , and clip=0. I had to write the latex command (which works fine). Stefano

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Roland Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Great, finally someone to pick this up. | If I were you I'd also ask the developers, I think they have very | detailed ideas of how the whole thing should be dealt with already. As | far as I understand, figures should _not_ be converted into eps since

Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Niklas Werner
Well, maybe I missed something, but there's one big thing: My copy of LyX (1.1.5pre3) is still not able to draw a border around an included image (it does in the LyX-window, but neither in latex,ps, nor pdf). I always had to do it by hand using some LaTeX-commands I've forgotten because I put

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Niklas" == Niklas Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Niklas> Well, maybe I missed something, but there's one big thing: My Niklas> copy of LyX (1.1.5pre3) is still not able to draw a border Niklas> around an included image (it does in the LyX-window, but Niklas> neither in latex,ps, nor

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | This kind of feature is not related to images, IMO. What we need is a | text inset which produces framed boxes. It will be easy when we get | text insets working. Agree, this is the right approach., Lgb

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Roland Krause
I certainly agree that eps is the format of choice for Latex when things are going to be printed. I noted though that there are many people out there that have reverted to create pdf documents, somewhat as a last resort against having to do M$soft. Anyway for pdflatex eps is not an option. Also

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-07 Thread Alexander Volovics
On 07-Jun-2000 Roland Krause wrote: > > Why GUI independece? Drop xforms now! Port LyX to KDE > Why GUI independece? Drop xforms now! Port Lyx to GTK/GNOME ;-) Alexander Volovics

Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-06 Thread Baruch Even
Hello, I'd like to solicit requests and ideas regarding the "insert Figure" option that is present in LyX, as there is a need to reimplement it, I thought it would be a good idea if peoples on the list would send me the list of their needs and wants so I can collect and include them in my work.

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-06 Thread Osvaldo Fornaro
Baruch Even wrote: Hello, I'd like to solicit requests and ideas regarding the "insert Figure" option that is present in LyX, as there is a need to reimplement it, I thought it would be a good idea if peoples on the list would send me the list of their needs and wants so I can collect and

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-06 Thread Ronald Florence
Baruch Even wrote: Regarding that I have a question, would you require the conversion to be a part of LyX, or maybe using external programs will be ok, ImageMagick for example is freely available and can convert almost anything to EPS, would requiring ImageMagick (or other suitable

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-06 Thread Herbert Voss
Ronald Florence wrote: Baruch Even wrote: Regarding that I have a question, would you require the conversion to be a part of LyX, or maybe using external programs will be ok, ImageMagick for example is freely available and can convert almost anything to EPS, would requiring

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-06 Thread Baruch Even
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Herbert Voss wrote: Baruch Even wrote: Regarding that I have a question, would you require the conversion to be a part of LyX, or maybe using external programs will be ok, ImageMagick for example is freely available and can convert almost anything to EPS,

Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-06 Thread Roland Krause
Great, finally someone to pick this up. If I were you I'd also ask the developers, I think they have very detailed ideas of how the whole thing should be dealt with already. As far as I understand, figures should _not_ be converted into eps since this is entirely unnecessary. LaTeX can handle

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-06 Thread Staffan Ringbom
In my opinion, the insert figure should support images that could be directly used by pdflatex. pdflatex and eps figures seems to be a bad mix. Is a conversion to eps files at the moment the best strategy? Probably yes in the short run? Roland Krause wrote: Great, finally someone to pick

Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-06 Thread Baruch Even
Hello, I'd like to solicit requests and ideas regarding the "insert Figure" option that is present in LyX, as there is a need to reimplement it, I thought it would be a good idea if peoples on the list would send me the list of their needs and wants so I can collect and include them in my work.

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-06 Thread Osvaldo Fornaro
Baruch Even wrote: Hello, I'd like to solicit requests and ideas regarding the "insert Figure" option that is present in LyX, as there is a need to reimplement it, I thought it would be a good idea if peoples on the list would send me the list of their needs and wants so I can collect and

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-06 Thread Ronald Florence
Baruch Even wrote: Regarding that I have a question, would you require the conversion to be a part of LyX, or maybe using external programs will be ok, ImageMagick for example is freely available and can convert almost anything to EPS, would requiring ImageMagick (or other suitable

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-06 Thread Herbert Voss
Ronald Florence wrote: Baruch Even wrote: Regarding that I have a question, would you require the conversion to be a part of LyX, or maybe using external programs will be ok, ImageMagick for example is freely available and can convert almost anything to EPS, would requiring

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-06 Thread Baruch Even
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Herbert Voss wrote: Baruch Even wrote: Regarding that I have a question, would you require the conversion to be a part of LyX, or maybe using external programs will be ok, ImageMagick for example is freely available and can convert almost anything to EPS,

Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-06 Thread Roland Krause
Great, finally someone to pick this up. If I were you I'd also ask the developers, I think they have very detailed ideas of how the whole thing should be dealt with already. As far as I understand, figures should _not_ be converted into eps since this is entirely unnecessary. LaTeX can handle

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-06 Thread Staffan Ringbom
In my opinion, the insert figure should support images that could be directly used by pdflatex. pdflatex and eps figures seems to be a bad mix. Is a conversion to eps files at the moment the best strategy? Probably yes in the short run? Roland Krause wrote: Great, finally someone to pick

Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-06 Thread Baruch Even
Hello, I'd like to solicit requests and ideas regarding the "insert Figure" option that is present in LyX, as there is a need to reimplement it, I thought it would be a good idea if peoples on the list would send me the list of their needs and wants so I can collect and include them in my work.

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-06 Thread Osvaldo Fornaro
Baruch Even wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to solicit requests and ideas regarding the "insert Figure" > option that is present in LyX, as there is a need to reimplement it, I > thought it would be a good idea if peoples on the list would send me the > list of their needs and wants so I can

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-06 Thread Ronald Florence
Baruch Even wrote: > Regarding that I have a question, would you require the conversion to be a > part of LyX, or maybe using external programs will be ok, ImageMagick for > example is freely available and can convert almost anything to EPS, would > requiring ImageMagick (or other

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-06 Thread Herbert Voss
Ronald Florence wrote: > > Baruch Even wrote: > > > Regarding that I have a question, would you require the conversion to be a > > part of LyX, or maybe using external programs will be ok, ImageMagick for > > example is freely available and can convert almost anything to EPS, would > >

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-06 Thread Baruch Even
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Herbert Voss wrote: > > Baruch Even wrote: > > > > > Regarding that I have a question, would you require the conversion to be a > > > part of LyX, or maybe using external programs will be ok, ImageMagick for > > > example is freely available and can convert almost

Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-06 Thread Roland Krause
Great, finally someone to pick this up. If I were you I'd also ask the developers, I think they have very detailed ideas of how the whole thing should be dealt with already. As far as I understand, figures should _not_ be converted into eps since this is entirely unnecessary. LaTeX can handle

Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features

2000-06-06 Thread Staffan Ringbom
In my opinion, the insert figure should support images that could be directly used by pdflatex. pdflatex and eps figures seems to be a bad mix. Is a conversion to eps files at the moment the best strategy? Probably yes in the short run? Roland Krause wrote: > Great, finally someone to