Hi Georg, Russel, Andrés thanks for all your information. It will take me probably some days to do all the testing.
I'll report on the special characters behaviour. Greetings from Munich Hellmut Georg Baum schrieb: ... > 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 > > Dr. Hellmut Weber Degenfeldstraße 2, D - 80803 München-Schwabing tel (+49 89) 3081172, mobil (+49 172) 8450321 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------- Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or Powerpoint attachments. Send plain text, rich text format, html, or pdf instead. Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- As an alternative to MS Word or Powerpoint. LyX, OpenOffice, also useable with Windows ;-)
