On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 10:26:17PM +0100, mn wrote: > On 03.12.16 21:43, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > >> BTW: > >> Until now I only had simple and short strings entered myself into an > >> otherwise empty document. > >> Copying this rather complex but still short example into LyX makes it > >> quite slow to handle and beachballing a lot. There seems to be a problem > >> handling this (script or unicode or whatnot). > > > > Good to know. Can you give some enumerated simple steps to reproduce? > > And where exactly do you see the slow part? (when copying, when > > pasting?) I do not see slowness, but I think it's because I > > misunderstood. Please do this in a separate email to lyx-devel so we can > > separate the conversations. > > > > 1. new document > 2. output font set to Xetex/SBL-Hebrew > 3. main document language set to English > 4. paste Hebrew text > beachball > 5. set pasted text to language Hebrew > beachball > 6. paste English text > beachball > 7. set English text to language English > beachball > 7. scrolling > beachball then quite slow scrolling > 8. resize window, > short beachball > 9. pasting the same English block again > beachball > 10 pasting English block again > beachball or delay (delay is ~ for 2-3 seconds) > > It seems to occur right after the clipboard buffer gets pasted into the > editor buffer / LyX's system. > Source of the text was OSHB sword module copied from Alkitab. > (i.e. I do not know if that has problems on its own) > But it seems to be an unproblematic block of characters in other > Mac-applications (speed-wise).
Thanks! I will try to reproduce this later. (In case any other non-Mac users are confused by the term "beachball", beachball apparently is the icon that Mac shows when the program is busy.) Scott
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