Re: Instant Preview and TIPA in LyX 1.4.1

[Maria Gouskova]

Example file attached. Although everything dvi's correctly, in LyX \textglotstop shows up as "textglotstop", \alpha shows up as an alpha symbol, and \Tree[.a b c ] shows up as "[]Tree[.abc]" in italics.

Maria

I didn't use noepic here--is it crucial for Instant Preview? But it doesn't make a difference for TIPA, anyway. The slow performance is with larger files that have multiple Instant Preview parts, all in TIPA. The document is very slow to open (a full 8 seconds on a PowerBook 1.33 GHz/512 MB RAM) and navigates sluggishly (cursor takes a while to move, etc.).

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On May 7, 2006, at 3:04 AM, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:

Maria Gouskova wrote:

Instant Preview does not seem to work for the phonetic fonts package
TIPA or for Qtree in 1.4.1. I am using Mac OS version 10.4.6, and
Instant Preview works correctly for math symbols/formulas, just not
for phonetic fonts or trees.

Both work for me. However, for Qtree I have to use

have to be sure you're in math-text mode.

Can you send a small example file that shows the failure?

\usepackage{noepic]{qtree} (because dvipng needs that), and with tipa, you

Moreover, LyX 1.4.1 is just as slow when working with Instant Preview
of TIPA as it was in version 1.4.0.

Nothing changed in that area AFAIR. Slow in which respect?

Jürgen