Hi All, After reading all the inputs, I really wet worried about my installation so I decided to uninstall Lyx and reinstall it again, accepting all default settings proposed by the installer.
Starting the program from the installer gave me the menus in english. After closing the program and reopening again, all the menus were in spanish as it should be (LANG=es_ES) I loaded one of the files with lots of math in it and Instant preview worked also both for math and pictures, so my believe is that I did something wrong the first time. Thanks for the follow up Eugenio Guevara Angus Leeming Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:37:06 -0700 Paul A. Rubin wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: FWIW, I just opened a doc with spaces in the path (though not in the file name itself) and instant preview worked fine. I did have to scroll through the document to induce instant preview to update the display, but that seems to be normal modus operandi. (This was 1.3.6pre17 on XP Pro.) Hi, Paul. Could you repeat the exercise using a file name with spaces? Disclaimer: There's something intermittent going on here, and since intermittent can be a synonym for stochastic, I'm not sure if I've established the pattern. On the one hand, I tried a small test file with spaces in the name, sitting on my desktop (which means under Docs & Sets, which means spaces in the path as well), and the spaces did not seem to effect instant preview. Good. Then I'll file Eugenio's report under "unexplained user-side problem". On the other hand, something else did. It appears that if the document contains one or more math insets that use AMS math symbols, and if AMS Math isn't checked in Layout | Document | Packages, then instant preview not only won't preview the offending insets (which makes sense, since latex should choke on the unknown symbols) but also won't preview any insets that use plain TeX symbols. Turning on AMS Math after loading the document is not sufficient to resolve the problem; you have to save the document (with AMS Math selected), close and then reload the document. On the gripping hand, opening an offending document (with AMS Math off) and, without necessarily turning AMS Math on, editing a non-offending formula will get it previewed (but you lose the preview if you edit it back to its original state). Probably. I cache results and error handling isn't really thought through carefully. Editing an offending formula after turning AMS Math on will get it previewed, but again not if you edit it back to its original state. I think you're describing "expected" behaviour. Not necessarily how you'd want it, but behaviour that reflects the way the thing is coded. So maybe Eugenio's experience was confounded by this (file with no spaces used vanilla math, file with spaces used AMS math)?? Angus
