A further note on using the new lyx-1.2.0 prerelease with Sparc-Solaris-8. After much experimentation, with help from John Levon and Lars Bj�nnes, it appears that the <compose> key implementation in xforms-0.89.6 is broken for Solaris. The workaround is to compile lyx-1.2.0pre4 with xforms-0.88.1, which uses LyX's own handling of the <compose> key.
The downside is that using the earlier xforms library breaks the nifty direct screen display of graphics. With some modifications to lyxrc.defaults, which Angus Leeming explained in earlier messages on this mailing list, the 1.2.0 graphics can be made to work, albeit quite a bit slower, with the earlier xforms library. -- Ronald Florence www.18james.com
