Re: Issues using lyx

On 06/23/2017 12:05 PM, David L. Johnson wrote: > > There are, for some, disadvantages to linux as well: No Word (I regard > this as a feature, not a problem), not many games. When needed for inter-operability, I find LibreOffice perfectly usable, unless you need some advanced features of the

Re: Issues using lyx

On 06/23/2017 03:45 PM, Cris Fuhrman wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 10:12 PM, Mr William Balthes > > wrote: > > A suggestion from the list is that I use linux. > > I know nothing about it. Does it have

Re: Issues using lyx

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 10:12 PM, Mr William Balthes < william.balt...@uqconnect.edu.au> wrote: > A suggestion from the list is that I use linux. > > I know nothing about it. Does it have automatic updates that you can't > avoid where the system restarts. > I've not had any data loss on my

Re: Issues using lyx

On 06/22/2017 10:12 PM, Mr William Balthes wrote: A suggestion from the list is that I use linux. I know nothing about it. Does it have automatic updates that you can't avoid where the system restarts. No - at least not the version I use. Each distribution has its own way of doing

Re: Issues using lyx

On 06/22/2017 10:12 PM, Mr William Balthes wrote: A suggestion from the list is that I use linux. I switched from Windows to Linux years ago. I ran Win 7 and Linux in parallel for a while, but I have not used Windows (other than when a guest someplace) in at least a decade. I know nothing

Re: Issues using lyx

. Thank you William Balthes From: Dr Eberhard Lisse <nos...@lisse.na> Sent: Tuesday, 20 June 2017 8:37 PM To: d...@lehigh.edu; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org; Mr William Balthes Subject: Re: Issues using lyx He's probably using Windoze. el On 18/06/2017 14:58,

Re: Issues using lyx

He's probably using Windoze. el On 18/06/2017 14:58, David L. Johnson wrote: > On 06/17/2017 11:58 PM, Mr William Balthes wrote: >> >> I am using lyx to write my thesis and having major problems. >> >> The program continually crashes and mostly forms an emergency file >> but sometimes not. >> >>

Re: Issues using lyx

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > Do you have a way to format up a Linux computer to use for LyXing your > document? Note that you don't necessarily need to dedicate a computer to this. You can try installing virtualization software (e.g.,

Re: Issues using lyx

On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 03:58:22 + Mr William Balthes wrote: > I am using lyx to write my thesis and having major problems. > The program continually crashes and mostly forms an emergency file > but sometimes not. The document seems to get messed up regardless.

Re: Issues using lyx

On 19/06/2017 6:36 a.m., Cris Fuhrman wrote: I use LyX a lot with Windows 10, and have had some spontaneous crashes that are hard to reproduce in small documents. They have happened when selecting large parts of a document (the selection scrolling beyond the current window is expanded super

Re: Issues using lyx

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Cris Fuhrman wrote: > I just tried this in LyX 2.3.3 on one of my big exam files... > Correction: I'm running LyX 2.2.2 on my computer at home where this crash was.

Re: Issues using lyx

I use LyX a lot with Windows 10, and have had some spontaneous crashes that are hard to reproduce in small documents. They have happened when selecting large parts of a document (the selection scrolling beyond the current window is expanded super fast downward, across many parts of a document

Re: Issues using lyx

On 06/17/2017 11:58 PM, Mr William Balthes wrote: I am using lyx to write my thesis and having major problems. The program continually crashes and mostly forms an emergency file but sometimes not. The document seems to get messed up regardless. I have never had any such problems, so let's