Ed Gatzke wrote:
Yes, thanks for a great new version! Things run terrrific for me overall. Even
my silly Alt-F4 to close works in the new version on XP, thanks!
Another thing to add to the "mystery of alt-F4".
My only problem so far is the win installer still did not get the equation
instant preview files loaded.
Works out of the box for me.
From a wiki:
Besides the LaTeX-package "preview" you need these two files in LyX's
installation subfolder "\bin": libnetpbm10.dll pnmcrop.exe
That's slightly dated. LyX 1.4.2 (the small installer) installs them
automatically in the "latextools" folder under the LyX root folder. Do
you not have them there?
First, thanks to the developers for another fine update. The Windows
1.4.2 installer ran error-free for me. However, subsequent to
installing it, I lost View->PDF (pdflatex) in 1.4.1 (and presumably
1.4.2, but I'm keeping 1.4.1 as my production version for the moment).
I have seen this here as well. You may want to keep separate folders for each
version of lyx. I have seen oddness when running both 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 on XP.
C:/Documents and Settings/username/Application Data/Lyx1.4.x is the working
directory on XP, so make a /Lyx1.4.1 and a /Lyx1.4.2 directory you copy over to
/Lyx1.4.x everytime you start. You won't be able to run both side by side I
think, but it may help until you swap over to the new version.
Actually, for this problem at least it suffices to add back the
LaTeX->PDF (pdflatex) converter. So far, that's the only
incompatibility I've seen introduced in the preference file, and I'm
able to run them side-by-side. Of course, I haven't reconfigured 1.4.2
since the initial installation, so I don't know if a reconfigure will
once again vaporize the LaTeX->PDF (pdflatex) conversion path.
/Paul
