Hellmut Weber wrote: > Hi, > I'm working on an IBM Lenovo ThinkPad T60 with gentoo-Linux + KDE-3.5.6 > + tetex-3.0_p1-r3 > > I'm still using LyX-1.3.7 because of the problems I have with some > special characters like å, ç, accented Letters etc. in LyX-1.4.x.
I am not aware of problems with accented characters in 1.4, but they should be gone in 1.5 anyway. It would be nice if you could test that and file a bug report if not. > Some Questions: > * Can I install LyX-1.5.0beta1 in parallel to LyX-1.3.7? (generating > manually from the sources probably) Yes. All you have to do is to compile from source and use the --with-version-suffix argument of the configure script, e.g. --with-version-suffix=1.5. Then it will use a different personal configuration directory, and the binary will be named lyx1.5. If you don't use that argument then LyX 1.5 will make your old configuration unusable for LyX 1.3.x. > * Is there a converter from the LyX file format 1.3.7 to 1.5.0. > (Looking at them with vi there are some obvious differences...) Yes. The converter is called lyx2lyx and used automatically, so you can simply open your old files in 1.5. You can also export them in the old format again, but that direction is not as complete as the conversion from 1.3 to 1.5. > * Is Qt4 needed for LyX-1.5.0? Yes. Georg
