On Apr 26, 2007, at 4:24 PM, Bob Lounsbury wrote:
Success finally!! Just a shot in the dark here, but maybe I have
good night
vision. The culprit may have been Stuffit Expander. If I let stuffit
decompress and expand the tar.gz there was no src folder. However,
if I let
stuffit decompress and expand the tar.gz.b2 there was an src folder
so I
assumed everything was fine yesterday but that stuffit expanded source
folder gave me the 'make' error.
So today suspecting that stuffit was not doing it's job correctly, I
decompressed and expanded the tar.gz from the terminal. Everything
seemed to
be there including the src folder. Using yesterday's qt4.3snapshot,
LyX1.5.0beta2 compiled perfectly.
Stuffit has never worked reliably for me. I'd recommend deleting it
and using either the Mac native utilities or The Unarchiver.app.
A couple of things I've noticed under brief use. Scrolling seems much
improved. It is still pretty slow typing in figure floats, although
math
equations seem faster. I can confirm the strange issue reported
that the
on-screen fonts when set to Times look like Helvetica or something
similar,
but when set to Times New Roman they look correct.
This happened for me the first time I used it. When this happened,
LyX wasn't finding all my fonts in Preferences > Screen fonts. Upon
reconfiguring and restarting, everything was back to normal. I'm not
sure what happened.
One strange thing is that
the previewed math are much much larger than the text, and much
different
than the previewed math under qt4.2.3 which look perfectly normal.
I don't
know if this is a qt issue or an LyX issue.
It's a difference between Qt-4.2.x and 4.3. Note that fonts generally
in Qt-4.3 are smaller -- in the main text, in dialogs, etc. I'm not
sure why math previews are so much bigger.
Opening the LyX preferences or
the document settings are almost instantaneous whereas under
qt4.2.3 I get
the colored spinning wheel and have to wait.
I think I'm going to compile the latest LyX1.5.0svn and see if the
previewed
math are the correct size. Maybe something is not quite right in the
LyX1.5.0beta2 source? That's the only thing bugging me right now.
Any reason
why the previewed math would be larger?
It's definitely a difference caused by Qt. (Previewed math in LyX
with Qt-4.2 is actually a bit smaller than the text.)
Bennett
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