I do like the new features and would love to continue working with
1.60cr2 if there are some workarounds. If there is a way to map ctrl-B
back to \mathbf{} instead of \boldsymbol{} it would do it for me.
As for the export files bug, so far I have discovered that the export
function sends the files to a subdirectory in the temp folder. I
haven't tried the workaround you mentioned here, though I'm not sure if
I completely understand what you are saying.
As for the keymapping issue. I see that one can map keys to lyx
commands, one of which is something like font-bold. However how do you
change the behavior of the lyx command? Perhaps there is another lyx
command that allows for generic latex macro substitution that could be
keyboard mapped. I will scour the documentation for that. Also I
suspect there is a way to make ctrl-B toggle like it used to, but I'm
not sure how. There wasn't anything in the keyboard mapping
documentation to suggest it.
Thanks,
Matt
Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
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.
