A few days ago I installed lyx-1.5.0beta1 on my Lenovo T60 with gentoo-linux and KDE-3.5.6.
A first list of exyperiences: * The Euro symbol can be entered into LyX and is shown in the GUI. The symbol which is shown in the pdf dokument (generated with pdflatex) is not the official one, as offered by the eurosym package for example. Can I change this? I have the impression that the use of the euro symbol has evolved in a way that the official version (as given be '\euro' of the eurosym package) is always used independently of the font used for the rest of a text. * All the other problems I had with certain special characters are gone. I can enter accented characters in the usual way using the daed key combinations e.g. '`+e' for 'è', '~+n' for 'ñ' etc. Also some specail ones which i generate with the aid of a compose key (substituting the shift-lock) work well: å, ç, ¥. * Insertion of a protected blank does not work as expected. Before I could insert it with the keys 'ctrl+space'. This does not work. In the english cua.bind file (which I use) there is a line \bind "C-S-space" "protected-space-insert" but 'ctrl+shift+space' doesn't work either, and additionally there is no item in the menu 'Insert >special characters' for the protected blank any more (in lyx-1.3.7 it was there, although indicating the not working key combination 'C-S-space') * Inserting a line end with 'ctrl+enter' on the other hand does work as expected. * Moving the cursor wordwise (using the keys ctrl+right / ctrl+left) puts the cursor in either case to the beginning of the word. Which is in contrast to the behaviour in lyx-1.3.7 which made the cursor jump to the end of the word when going to the right and to the beginning of the word when going to the left. And which is what I woiuld like to see again. * In cua.bind there are two definitions for key combinations to increment resp. decrement the depth of a paragraph: \bind "M-S-Right" "depth-increment" \bind "M-S-Left" "depth-decrement" They dont work for me. * Moving the cursor with the Up and Down keys over paragraphs of different format (itemize, standard, section, etc.) makes it loose the 'logical position'. Once put at the end of the line moving inside a standard paragraph the cursor jumps to the end of the next (or preceding) line when moved with Up and Down. * In lyx-1.3.7 there was the possibility to copy the layout of a paragraph which I used quite frequently. It was defined by the following lines in the cua.bind file: \bind "C-S-C" "layout-copy" \bind "C-S-V" "layout-paste" Has this feature been abolished explicitly? I would like to see it again. * Working with a parent and several child documents, it seems that a change in one of the child documents is noted when producing the pdf output te next time only, if all lyx file concerned have been opened in the same lyx instance. For the rest it is an even bigger pleasure to work with it than it was already before. Keep on with your brilliant work ;-) BTW I'm using LyX since 2000, all in all VERY satisfied. Hellmut 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 ;-)
