Re: on macOS new user experience likely to be frustrating

2020-02-14 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
I have none of these problems but then I have been using LyX on a daily basis since 1998 (v0.12) (on Linux at first but since 2005 on the Mac in a busy Obstetrics and Gynecology practice) And, I have installed 4 systems recently which all work out of the box... Here is what I have tested

Re: on macOS new user experience likely to be frustrating

2020-02-13 Thread mn
On 13.02.20 14:34, Stephan Witt wrote: > That’s a too long post and I cannot comment in detail, sorry. > I’m trying to give you some help though. I feel some responsibility > for the whole thing to get it working on Mac as good as possible. > But I’m not good with documentation and I didn’t wrote

Re: on macOS new user experience likely to be frustrating

2020-02-13 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 13.02.2020 um 13:30 schrieb mn : > > On 13.02.20 09:57, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: >> Am Donnerstag, den 13.02.2020, 09:42 +0100 schrieb mn: >>> Problem is reverse search works, now, but neither intuitively by >>> looking >>> through the application, nor by reading the fricking manuals (of >>>

Re: on macOS new user experience likely to be frustrating

2020-02-13 Thread mn
On 13.02.20 09:57, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 13.02.2020, 09:42 +0100 schrieb mn: >> Problem is reverse search works, now, but neither intuitively by >> looking >> through the application, nor by reading the fricking manuals (of >> which >> UserGuide will not display, whether

Re: on macOS new user experience likely to be frustrating

2020-02-13 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 13.02.2020 um 09:57 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller : > > Am Donnerstag, den 13.02.2020, 09:42 +0100 schrieb mn: >> Problem is reverse search works, now, but neither intuitively by >> looking >> through the application, nor by reading the fricking manuals (of >> which >> UserGuide will not display,

Re: on macOS new user experience likely to be frustrating

2020-02-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Donnerstag, den 13.02.2020, 09:42 +0100 schrieb mn: > Problem is reverse search works, now, but neither intuitively by > looking > through the application, nor by reading the fricking manuals (of > which > UserGuide will not display, whether compiled by yourself (as Pavel > points out to be

Re: on macOS new user experience likely to be frustrating

2020-02-13 Thread mn
On 12.02.20 23:51, Stephan Witt wrote: > Sorry, now I think it is „Forward Search“ what is configured here. > The „Reverse Search“ operation is the jump from PDF-Viewer to LyX-document. > This has to be configured in Skim to get it right. Thx. Not quite what I was intending. [On my setup, I can

Re: on macOS new user experience likely to be frustrating

2020-02-12 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 12.02.2020 um 19:51 schrieb Stephan Witt : > > Am 12.02.2020 um 16:22 schrieb mn : >> >> LyX 2.3.4.2, macOS 12 >> >> This is just a new user to LyX perspective: bad. >> >> Newly setup system: >> >> 1. install macOS >> 2. install TeXlive2019 >> 3. install LyX 2.3.4.2 >> 4. install Skim >>

Re: on macOS new user experience likely to be frustrating

2020-02-12 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 12.02.2020 um 16:22 schrieb mn : > > LyX 2.3.4.2, macOS 12 > > This is just a new user to LyX perspective: bad. > > Newly setup system: > > 1. install macOS > 2. install TeXlive2019 > 3. install LyX 2.3.4.2 > 4. install Skim > 5. read some docs for configuration > > (as written previously:

Re: on macOS new user experience likely to be frustrating

2020-02-12 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 04:22:12PM +0100, mn wrote: > - trying to enable synctex support as per wiki is impossible > > ??? **none** of the options under > > Preferences > File Handling > Converters > > enables any 'OK' or 'Apply' buttons. They always remain greyed out, no > changes can be

on macOS new user experience likely to be frustrating

2020-02-12 Thread mn
LyX 2.3.4.2, macOS 12 This is just a new user to LyX perspective: bad. Newly setup system: 1. install macOS 2. install TeXlive2019 3. install LyX 2.3.4.2 4. install Skim 5. read some docs for configuration (as written previously: trying to read UserGuide.pdf will not work in this setup…) -