Oscar Lopez wrote:
Hello lyxers
Yesterday I updated from lyx-1.4.x to lyx-1.5.2 and first of all I would like to
thank to developers for such a great software.
The first try I did when testing the new version was to load a beamer
presentation I was working on. The first thing I got was a bunch of errors in
the Lyx: latex Errors window, something like this:
Latex Error: \begin{center} on input 211 ended by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup
You can't use '\prevdepth' in horizontal mode
Missing $ Inserted,
Missing number, treated as zero.
....
I finally managed to compile the document by moving to a new paragraph all lyx
notes and branches that were inlined within the text. What worries me is that I
have many presentations made in the past that I frequently use and I expect that
the same problem can appear. Has anybody experienced the same problem or similar
ones?
No, I've had no problems opening old beamer presentations (and, like
you, I have a bunch of them). The format for LyX document files evolves
with new releases, and there is a conversion tool included with LyX to
convert older format LyX files to the current format. It works pretty
well but perhaps not perfectly; it may have tripped over something a bit
unusual in your presentation file. Whether it will have similar
problems with other presentations is hard to predict.
Another notorius difference is the new font selection mechanism. In lyx-1.4.x I
selected the fonts of the document to Times. Now the new font selection window
it says Default Family: Default and Roman: Times Roman. The problem is twofold
- the generated pdf embbeds type 3 fonts (bitmapped)
- the look of the fonts is quite different
Why lyx-1.5.2 does not load the previously used by lyx-1.4.x font correctly? And
by the way, when I selected Font: Times in lyx-1.4.x what is the font that I
have to select in lyx-1.5.2 to get the same printable results.
I believe that if you want the Adobe standard fonts, you should select
Times Roman, Helvetica and Courier for Roman, San Serif and Typewriter
respectively. If your imported slide show had the Roman font set to
Times Roman and you got bitmapped fonts anyway, my guess is that they
were for special characters (math symbols, san serif fonts, something
like that).
/Paul
