On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 22:01 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > ... > >>>>> I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults > >>>>> came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this > >>>>> ought to be a default instead of an option. > > One thing to note: > > The default is to build LyX with the same preferences directory as LyX 1.6! > Perhaps you had the problems with 1.6 because of reading and writing LyX 1.6 > the same files as LyX 2.0 - when starting LyX from terminal you may add > -dbg lyxrc > as command line arguments to verify that.
I had changed out the .lyx directory for each program, and even deleted the thing to see if that made any difference. It didn't, so I **think** it's the app itself. > You have to add e.g. --with-version-suffix=-2.0 to make LyX 2.0 using > a parallel $HOME/.lyx-2.0 directory for it's settings. Cool. I'll recompile and do exactly that. Makes life easier... Ciao! Kenward -- Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts... Albert Einstein
