Re: Fwd: Re: Drag-and-drop dropped? [LyX 1.3.7pre4]

[Paul A. Rubin]

Yet more on the installation issues.  Brian Linfoot experienced some of 
the same installation issues I had, on both XP and 2K in his case, but 
it's not clear whether he had the same drag-and-drop problems before 
pre5 came out.  (In any case, they seem to be fixed.)  He had some other 
issues we're trying to sort out.

In particular, instant preview did not work initially for Brian, 
although it now does.  I just did another pre5 install on XP, keeping my 
existing preferences.  Once again the configuration script failed but 
the installer went ahead and started LyX, and once again LyX picked up 
my preferences correctly and could create/load/edit documents but could 
not display them.  I discovered this time that LyX did create a .tex 
file in the correct temp directory (plus a dependency file), but 
apparently never ran LaTeX.

I normally don't use instant preview, but I turned it on while LyX was 
running (after it failed to display a document).  Then I created a new 
document with a single math inset.  IP worked for me, which among other 
things means that LyX managed to run LaTeX to generate the DVI file with 
the formula image, even though View->DraftDVI failed to run LaTeX 
against the document containing the image.

As usual, everything worked fine after a restart.  I shall now stop 
replying to myself for a while.

Paul