Hello Matthew,
Matthew wrote:
I've been trying to use the candidate release for 1.6. While there are some
nice new features, like the ability to cut and paste graphics there are some
changes and perhaps bugs which negatively impact lyx.
My first pet peeve is that the export document command doesn't appear to
generate any output, unless it's doing so in an unknown directory different
from the directory of the .lyx source. In particular I'm trying to convert
a lyx 1.6 file back into a 1.5.3 file so that I can run a more 'stable'
version.
Are you using WinXP? If yes, this is a known bug that was detailled in
Uwe's announcement:
!Important note!: Due to a bug in LyX you are first be able to export
documents to e.g. PDF after opening the preferences dialog and clicking
there on the save button.
[...]
My next peeve that I've found is that tab no longer navigates through the
cells in an eqnarray. I haven't tried it with tables yet, but if it has the
same behavior there, that would also be bad.
This is being worked on. Hopefully fixed in the next rc.
After these problems I will stop testing 1.6 because I need to actually get
some work done. Now if I could just convert my document back......
Try the Prefs dialog work around. In general 1.6rc is pretty stable but
that is not a dot zero yet so, unless you know what you are doing, I
suggest to keep using 1.5.x.
Abdel.
