James, can you remind me what system you are using? Windows? Mac? Are
there any auxiliary programs you have running? We have sometimes seen
weird interactions between LyX and some other programs.
One more suggestion, though someone may have a slightly better idea. If
you go to View>Messages, then you will get a little window to which LyX
prints debugging messages. At first, you will not see very many, but if
you go to the Settings tab and click "Selected", you can activate some
of these messages. I'd start with "GUI handling", "Insettext/tabular
messages", "Keyboard events handling", and "Selection copy/paste
mechanism". If you notice one of these duplications, then /immediately/
go back to the output window, right click to select all, copy, and email
it here. This could tell us what's causing this.
Richard
PS Alternatively, if you can run LyX from a terminal, you can activate
debug messages to the terminal and redirect them to a file, if you wish.
Run "lyx -dbg" for info (or lyx.exe -dbg, on Windows, I guess).
On 02/18/2015 08:09 PM, James wrote:
I have been monitoring this problem for a little while now and it
hasn't yet disappeared.
This is what I have done and currently know:
I used the advanced find to locate all instances of double words and
then removed all of the existing double words at that point (about 2
weeks ago). There were LOTS scattered through 300 pages of content. At
a guess it could be more than one per A4 page equivalent.
After removing the double words I have been frequently performing the
advanced find and replace to determine if they were randomly generated
in the document. No new double words were found in areas of the
document that hadn't been touched.
Double words were still created though. The only new cases of double
words have been in active areas of the document (i.e. in specific LyX
file/child that I have been working in and in the specific section).
At one point I believe that I pressed the space bar and I'm pretty
sure it created a double word on the key press (not 100% sure though).
e.g. I typed "The implications of rigid" with keystrokes like this:
"The<spacebar>implications<spacebar>of<spacebar>rigid<_spacebar_>"
And after the last <spacebar> following the word "rigid" a second
rigid was duplicated to give this:
"The implications of rigid rigid"
I didn't see the duplicate word happen, but I had stopped typing after
the word 'rigid' as turned a page. I looked back only to see the last
word duplicated.
It is still very frustrating, but at least knowing that it is
occurring as a result of keystrokes is a step forward. And with the
advanced search and find they are at least easy to remove.
FIND AND REPLACE QUESTION:
What would I need to put in the "Replace with:" section to delete a
duplicate word once found? Can it be done? Where would I have to look
to find out about the syntax for writing my own expressions?
I did try to create a user defined regular expression but because I
really have no idea about the syntax required, it just resulted in
replacing the duplicate word with the literal expression plus with
\endregexp{} tacked on the end.
Cheers
James
