Am 18.05.2010 um 20:01 schrieb Andre Poenitz: > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 05:52:54PM +0200, Stephan Witt wrote: >> Am 17.05.2010 um 21:27 schrieb Andre Poenitz: >> >>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 07:20:34PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote: >>>> Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: >>>>> Since I go no more translation updates after the mailing list >>>>> revival, I will try to set up Lyx 1.6.6 now. Please stand by. >>>> >>>> please make it clear in the announce that we encourage people to build >>>> it against Qt 4.5 and not 4.6 (#6608). >>> >>> Can anyone remind me what the issues with Qt 4.5/4.6/4.7 are? >> >> Andre', do you think LyX builds with Qt 4.7 are running better then with 4.6? > > That's what I'd try to figure out once I know what the problems in 4.5 > and 4.6 are. The problems being present only on Mac does not make it > easier for me, though...
I have to admit that I ignored some font oddities I saw since my upgrade to Snow Leopard. And it's not only LyX where I saw it. The umlauts of times roman fonts e.g. Maybe it's not a Qt or LyX problem... >> Should I try this? > >> And what's the release plan for 4.7? > > Even if I knew a date the answer would be "Releases are announced when > they are out" ;-) I am sort of waiting for it myself. I see. I would act likewise if I had to responsibility :) > In any case I would not expect much changes (if any at all) in the areas > that are interesting for LyX before 4.7.0 from now on, so for all > practical reasons 4.7.0 beta1 should be as good or as bad as the final > from LyX's point of view. So I'll give it a try. > There have been changes to the font handling in 4.7 cycle, also > regarding the x positioning of glyphs. I've been bitten by one bug there > myself, but this has been fixed again in the mean time. > > Maybe someone who knows how to reproduce the 4.5/4.6 problem could > indeed try 4.7.0 beta and see whether it makes a difference? I've some unfinished work with spell checkers and a real life too. But having a look is possible. Stephan
