Thanks for all the advices to my mail. Most of the problem solutions I knew, my point was to suggest making the default behaviour for the windows version of LyX "reasonable" without the need to tweak the system and to scan the FAQs.
On the unsolved points .... Helge Hafting wrote: > Turn the preview off. Then the formulas remain in the size used > when editing them. Perhaps not as pretty, but ok nonetheless. I need instant preview because I am using xypic extensively. As my first LyX-project I wrote a manual on how to use xypic in LyX: http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~gumm/LyX/xypic/xypic.pdf Without instant preview for xy-figures I would not see a compelling reason for myself to use LyX. I guess I would have used AuCTeX, TeXMacs or just stayed with WinEdt. > The bitmapped fonts are ok - the problem is the broken acrobat > reader so many uses. Printing the pdf will actually be fine. Many > people don't make pdf's - they don't need a different default. I threw away the new Acrobat Professional and reinstalled the older one Acrobat 5.0. It is much faster, has everything I need and its menu structure is better organized. I hear from many people who did likewise. > Use "update dvi" instead then. It updated the file, and your dvi > viewer will then reload the new file automatically. (If it doesn't, > then surely > it has a button or menu for doing that.) C-d is the default action from the View-menu. I just suggest that S-C-d would be a better default >> = Going back to LyX I sometimes do it by doubleclicking the .lyx-file again. >> This opens a new LyX on the same file. At the end I discover that I have >> several LyXes open on the same file. Oops!! Which one do I want to save >> now ? >> > Don't do that - it is an approach that doesn't work with lyx. Switch > to the running lyx instead - it isn't hard to do on windows. Well, thanks for telling. However, this happens unintentionally. In the Windows programs I am used to, this never causes a problem. Why should I have a problem with LyX ? > It is common in most editors _in windows_, which isn't the main > platform for lyx. Still, it can be done if you can interest a developer Yes, if you want to make LyX popular under Windows, this should be adapted. Also, it would be nice if C-v from the Windows Clipboard would work. It took me a while to find the LyX-equivalent Edit-> Paste external selection That said, LyX is a great system and I'll keep advertising it. H.Peter
