Re: LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 3) is released

2007-05-19 Thread Russell Davie
On Sat, 19 May 2007 14:39:58 +1000
Russell Davie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Fri, 18 May 2007 15:27:28 +0100
> José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Public release of LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 3)
> > ===
> 
> snip
> 
> It compiled easily in Ubuntu Dapper under checkinstall.  It now has even 
> *more* LyX goodness.
> 
> Thanks to all you devs, I miss the group photo on the splash screen!
> 
> Here is the checkinstall package: 
> http://home.exetel.com.au/randombits/lyx_1.5.0beta3-1_i386.deb
> It does not check for dependencies, use at your own risk.
> 
> cheers
> 
> Russell
> 

This package also works in Ubuntu Edgy (6.10)

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Re: Using listings package with beamer.

2007-05-19 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Bo Peng wrote:
> > [fragile] should work, theoretically.
>
> No. It does not. :-(

Does it work if you insert the frame with ERT? I always pass options that way.

Jürgen


Re: Using listings package with beamer.

2007-05-19 Thread Bo Peng

> You can also try to define an optional argument for Frame in the layout. We
> should do this anyway.


Simple replacement of plain with fragile does not seem to work.

Style BeginFragileFrame
 KeepEmpty 1
 LatexType Command
 LatexName lyxframeend{}\lyxfragileframe
 MarginFirst_Dynamic
 NextNoIndent  1
 ParSkip   0
 TopSep2.5
 BottomSep 0.5
 ParSep0
 Align Center
 AlignPossible center
 LabelType Static
 LabelBottomSep0
 LeftMarginM
 LabelString   "Fragile Frame "

 Font
   Series  Bold
   SizeLargest
   Color   Blue
 EndFont

 LabelFont
   Family  Roman
   Color   latex
 EndFont

 Preamble
   \makeatletter
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]@lyxframestop}%
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ifnextchar<{\@@lyxfragileframe}{\@@lyxfragileframe<*>}}%
   \long\def\@@lyxfragileframe<#1>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 \frame<#1>[fragile]{\frametitle{#2}#3}}
   \makeatother
 EndPreamble
End

I guess Herbot should know why [fragile] does not work, and how to
define this fragile frame.

Bo


Re: Using listings package with beamer.

2007-05-19 Thread Bo Peng

On 5/19/07, Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Bo Peng wrote:
> [fragile]
>
> Nothing works. See attached.

[fragile] should work, theoretically.


No. It does not. :-(


You can also try to define an optional argument for Frame in the layout. We
should do this anyway.


Then how about plainfragile? We really need layout argument.

Bo


1.5.0-beta3 improvements

2007-05-19 Thread Rodrigo Fresneda
Hi, I am just writing to say that lyx-1.5.0-beta3 got rid of the bug

http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3516

the previous beta release had. Also, I noticed that now I can select
large portions of a text without lyx crashing.
So far, all problems I had seen with 1.5-beta2 seem fixed. 
best regards,
rodrigo.


Re: 'Algorithm' float in a multiple-file document

2007-05-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr

John Pye schrieb:


Can anyone tell me if any of those things (lmodern, url, listings,
hyperref) cause problems with Algorithm floats?


There are some redefinitions needed to get algorithms perfectly work with hyperref, see the 
EmbeddedObjects manual. I hope you find there a solution.


regards Uwe


'Algorithm' float in a multiple-file document

2007-05-19 Thread John Pye
Hi all

I have recently tried to put an 'Algorithm' float into one chapter of my
thesis (each chapter being a separate file). When I render that chapter
by itself in pdflatex, it works OK.

But when I attempt to render the whole thesis, it doesn't work. I
presume there is some incompatibility arising from my document preamble,
which contains as below.

Can anyone tell me if any of those things (lmodern, url, listings,
hyperref) cause problems with Algorithm floats?

The error message that I get is related to a syntax error in my
reference to the float \ref{alg:xxx}. It says "Undefined control
sequence".

If I convert my 'algorithm' float into a 'table' float, the problem goes
away.

As I said, if I just render the one chapter by itself (empty preamble)
it works fine.

What is it that I'm missing here? This is with LyX 1.4.3 on Ubuntu 7.04
(standard .deb install)

Cheers
JP

--8<-
\usepackage[bookmarks,bookmarksnumbered=true,
  bookmarksopenlevel=0,
  pdfstartview=FitH,bookmarksopen=true]{hyperref}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{color}
\definecolor{darkred}{rgb}{0.55,0,0}
\definecolor{darkgreen}{rgb}{0,0.55,0}

\usepackage{listings}

\lstdefinelanguage{ascend}{
  morekeywords=[1]{
 REQUIRE,IMPORT,NOTES,
 ATOM,MODEL,METHOD,METHODS,
 UNIVERSAL,CONSTANT,DIMENSION,DEFAULT,
 END,FOR,CREATE,DO,EXTERNAL, 
 CONDITIONAL,SATISFIED,WHEN,CASE,OTHERWISE,TRUE,
 FALSE,SELF,
  },
  morekeywords=[2]{
 REFINES,IS_A,WILL_BE,ALIASES,INPUT,OUTPUT,DATA,
 FIX,FREE,RUN,ARE_THE_SAME
  },
  morekeywords=[3]{
 solver_var,integer_constant
  },
  sensitive=true,
  morecomment=[s][\color{blue}]{(*}{*)},
  morestring=[b][\color{darkgreen}]',
  morestring=[b][\color{darkgreen}]",
  morecomment=[s][\color{darkgreen}]{\{}{\}},
}

\lstnewenvironment{ascend}
  {\lstset{basicstyle=\ttfamily\small, keywordstyle=\color{darkred}}}
  {}

--8<-

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Vertically center subfigures

2007-05-19 Thread Phil
I have two subfigures side-by-side and one of them is about 1/3 as tall as the
other.  Is it possible to vertically center the shorter one relative to the tall
one?




Re: LyX 1.5(beta3) bugs/opinions/suggestions

2007-05-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin

Michal Ramsza wrote:

Hello,

I found at least 3 problems with LyX 1.5(beta3) on Windows XP.
1. Try to write $x \leq y$ - the \leq part is displayed as an empty box 
instead of the right symbol.


Are other symbols also missing/corrupted?  If so, try downloading the 
Bakoma4LyX fonts from the wiki and reinstalling them using the Windows 
font applet (you'll have to delete the ones already installed).  I've 
encountered problems periodically where something gets munged with the 
display fonts, sometimes after an upgrade, sometimes not.  I'm not sure 
why reinstalling fixes things -- I've done a binary comparison of the 
installed files and the replacements and found no differences -- but it 
does.


3. If during an install of 1.5 the previous version (1.4.x) is still 
installed then one has to remove it manually.


This is a feature (and one I support).  I run 1.4.4 and 1.5.0svn in 
parallel (particularly since the latter is still beta).


/Paul



Re: LyX 1.5(beta3) bugs/opinions/suggestions

2007-05-19 Thread Dov Feldstern

Michal Ramsza wrote:

Hello,

1. Try to write $x \leq y$ - the \leq part is displayed as an empty box 
instead of the right symbol.


This likely has to do with the particular screen font that you're using. 
I know that I sometimes see those empty boxes instead of characters 
which do not appear in the particular font I'm using (I think, though 
I'm not certain, that math is affected by this as well).


You can change the screen fonts through Tools -> Preferences... -> Look 
and feel -> Screen fonts.





Re: bug in lyx 1.5.0

2007-05-19 Thread Richard Heck
Marcelo Acuña wrote:
> Hello,
>  I have a severe problem with version 1.5.0 that I
> haven´t with version 1.4.4.
>  I have several words in bold typeface. In times this
> word included emphatized or small caps words for latin
> words and names. When I have words in bold that
> included words emphatized or in small caps, spaces
> between word in bold and word emphatized or in small
> caps are missing.
>   
I've just tried this, and I don't see any problem. Please try to create
a "minimal example", that is, to strip out as much from the file as you
can while still seeing the problem. Then post the example file to
bugzilla.lyx.org.

Richard


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Re: little problem in lyx 1.5.0

2007-05-19 Thread Richard Heck

If you are seeing only one paragraph, then this is a known problem.

Marcelo Acuña wrote:
> Hello,
>  I have a little problem in lyx 1.5.0.
>  In times main screen of lyx is no redraw properly
> when I changed to others program, i.e.: when I run
> latex.
>
>  Marcelo
>
>
>
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Re: superscript

2007-05-19 Thread Richard Heck

Can you be more specific about the problem? What kind of keyboard are
you using? What language encoding? etc?

Gyorgy Pota wrote:
> Dear Users,
>
> It has already been raised that, for example, textdegree symbol did
> not work in the early Lyx 1.5 beta(s). Now I can report that for me
> there is a number of keyboard symbols, including carets, degree etc.
> that do not work. They do not appear on the screen either.  These are
> usually inserted using Altgr. I tried Lyx betas 2 and 3 for Windows.
> What should I do or is this still a bug?
>
> With  best wishes,
>
> Gyorgy Pota
>


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problem with escaping chracters in urls (footnotes, bibtex)

2007-05-19 Thread Tim Michelsen

Hello,
some days ago I had a problem with backreferencing from the bibliography 
[1]. I solved it putting a "\" before problematic characters like "&" or 
"#". No I have discovered that when running ps2pdf or displaying a 
postscript the "\" will be printed in the URL. Another user has also 
reported the problem [3] where someone pointed to the bug no. 449 [4]. 
The same problems described with footnotes applies also for urls in 
bibtex. Since I use natbib the solution offered in [5] doesn't help and 
JabRef wouldn't even accept something like:


URL	= 
{\url{http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Education/Infrastructure#Internet_Connectivity}


My question is therefore:
How can I put in these "problematic" URLs in a manner that I will be 
able to run both pdflatex & dvips/ps2pdf and get the URLs set like they 
should be pasted in the browser?


One workaround could be to use hyperref also with ps2pdf  ut then long 
links wouln't be breaken across lines.


Any help is greatly appreciated since I don't really know anymore how to 
get around this.


Thanks in advance,
Timmie


[1] [SOLVED] Re: using pdflatex with pagebackref option - 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/38498


[2] example:

in Bibtex/ URLS in footnotes
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Education/Infrastructure#Internet_Connectivity

in PDF (ps2pdf)
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Education/Infrastructure\#Internet_Connectivity

pdflatex
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Education/Infrastructure#Internet_Connectivity

[3] hash in URL - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/19633

[4] special characters %, #, ^, \ not handled when used in URL inset 
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449


[5] Problems with citations and URL - 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/31022




Unicode font Gentium

2007-05-19 Thread Nick Hopton
Hello All, I came across a free, Unicode TTF font called 'Gentium' the 
other day. Has anyone managed to get this font working on a recent 
release of LyX for Windows? It does look pretty.


Regards,
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Re: New LyX/LaTeX documentation

2007-05-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom

On Sat, 19 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote:


Hi Christian,

I added a link to TeX, LaTeX and LyX from the "Some links to other sites
related to LaTeX" section this webpage:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LaTeX#sLaTeX.LaTeX_1


Sounds good.


Is that the page to which you were referring?


If it's primarily about LaTeX, that page is good.
Depending on how much it's related to LyX, a link on this page is also 
useful.


http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Manuals

Cheers,
/Christian

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superscript

2007-05-19 Thread Gyorgy Pota

Dear Users,

It has already been raised that, for example, textdegree symbol did not 
work in the early Lyx 1.5 beta(s). Now I can report that for me there is 
a number of keyboard symbols, including carets, degree etc. that do not 
work. They do not appear on the screen either.  These are usually 
inserted using Altgr. I tried Lyx betas 2 and 3 for Windows. What should 
I do or is this still a bug?


With  best wishes,

Gyorgy Pota

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little problem in lyx 1.5.0

2007-05-19 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hello,
 I have a little problem in lyx 1.5.0.
 In times main screen of lyx is no redraw properly
when I changed to others program, i.e.: when I run
latex.

 Marcelo



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bug in lyx 1.5.0

2007-05-19 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hello,
 I have a severe problem with version 1.5.0 that I
haven´t with version 1.4.4.
 I have several words in bold typeface. In times this
word included emphatized or small caps words for latin
words and names. When I have words in bold that
included words emphatized or in small caps, spaces
between word in bold and word emphatized or in small
caps are missing.
 Same text is compiled with lyx 1.4.4 without problem.

 Marcelo



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Re: about beta 3

2007-05-19 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Marcelo Acuña wrote:
> File format has changed from beta 2 to beta 3?

Yes.

Jürgen


about beta 3

2007-05-19 Thread Marcelo Acuña
Hello,
 I open a file with beta 3 (before I opened it with
beta 2). I modified it and save it.
 Then, when I opened with beta 2 a message appears
that said:

 (name-file) is from a different version of lyx, but
the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it.

 File format has changed from beta 2 to beta 3? Or is
a bug?
 
 Marcelo

 






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Re: Using listings package with beamer.

2007-05-19 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:18:20AM -0500, Bo Peng wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am trying to use listings with beamer, I learned 
> that
> 
> 1. beamer 3.07 is required.
> 
> 2. listings can not be float (understandable)
> 
> 3. the option fragile after \begin{frame} is 
> necessary.
> 
> How would I insert this [fragile] option in lyx?

Hm, would it work to add needprotect = 1 in the layout file?

- Martin
 


Re: LyX 1.5(beta3) bugs/opinions/suggestions

2007-05-19 Thread Richard Heck
Michal Ramsza wrote:
> One thing I don't understand: the way macros works - philosophy (and
> by a macro I mean \newcommand{}{}). In my opinion there is absolutely
> no reason to display a definition of a macro. It is far better to
> create a new dialog (or a part of a LaTeX Preamble dialog) and
> store/enter all definitions there instead of cluttering a text (how it
> looks graphically right now is fine, also handling of macros in a text
> is fine).
Stefan Schimanski is working on a massive re-write of the math macro
facility. It's very, very impressive stuff. See this:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg116371.html.
> What about environments?
What?
> Also, it would be nice to have some sort of help while entering the
> macros in math mode (a floating list I can display while writing or
> some interactive help). This will be especially of help if one has a
> large collection of macros. Quite often when I write a text I create
> macros for almost all variables, operators etc. since referees in
> journals like to change names of variables, say form $\phi$ to $\xi$,
> because of tradition, personal views etc. That way I am prepared.
A bugzilla entry to this might be worth it.

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Re: Using listings package with beamer.

2007-05-19 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Bo Peng wrote:
> [fragile]
>
> Nothing works. See attached.

[fragile] should work, theoretically.
You can also try to define an optional argument for Frame in the layout. We 
should do this anyway.

Jürgen


Re: Using listings package with beamer.

2007-05-19 Thread Bo Peng


"You can pass options and an overlay specification to a frame by giving these
in TEX-mode as the first thing in the frame title. (Some magic is performed to
extract them in LYX-mode from there.)"


I tried

<[fragile]>
[]

[fragile]

Nothing works. See attached.

Bo


beamer-listings.lyx
Description: application/lyx


Re: New LyX/LaTeX documentation

2007-05-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 19 May 2007 07:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> I was going through some old posts. Below you talk about a document you've
>
> written:
>   > http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm
>
> Do you think it should be linked to from the wiki page about
> documentation related to LyX?
>
> Regards,
> /Christian

Hi Christian,

I added a link to TeX, LaTeX and LyX from the "Some links to other sites 
related to LaTeX" section this webpage:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LaTeX#sLaTeX.LaTeX_1

Is that the page to which you were referring?

Thanks

Steve

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Re: LyX 1.5(beta3) bugs/opinions/suggestions

2007-05-19 Thread Richard Kleeman

Francesco Menoncin wrote:

Hello,

I have just installed LyX 1.5 (beta3) on Windows XP and:

1) as it happend to Michal, when installing it is impossible to dowload 
both English and Italian dictionary;


2) in contrast with Michal I perfectly see the output of the command $x 
\leq y$.


Nevertheless, I would like to thank all the guys who worked on LyX since 
it is really a WONDERFUL software!!


Francesco


In linux $x \leq y$ displays fine for me in 1.5 beta 3



Re: CJK in bibliography

2007-05-19 Thread Marc Flerackers

Marc Flerackers wrote:
I can't seem to put any Japanese title or author in my .bib file 
without encountering errors. I saved my .bib file as utf8 like the CJK 
environment in my document. I also tried converting to \emph{} with 
utf2any.exe, but that just gave \emph{}statements in de pdf. Is there 
a way, or do I need to romanize all authors and titles?


To answer my own question in case someone encounters the same problem. 
It seems I needed to put \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} in the preamble to 
use the utf8 bibtex file with Japanese names and titles. As for 
romanized names, bibtex doesn't seem to like ō or \=o, but {\=o} works fine.


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Re: New LyX/LaTeX documentation

2007-05-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Steve Litt wrote:

Hi Steve,

I was going through some old posts. Below you talk about a document you've 
written:

> http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm

Do you think it should be linked to from the wiki page about 
documentation related to LyX?


Regards,
/Christian


Hi all,

As you know, for years I've been trying to understand and describe LyX
environment creation/modification, and I think I just made some more
progress:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm

This document, called LyX, LaTeX and TeX begins with a simple explanation of
TeX, with several examples. The document makes the point that it's very
difficult to understand LaTeX without basic understanding of TeX, similar to
how it would be difficult to understand the C++ Standard Template Library
(STL) without a basic understanding of C++.

It then goes on to explain a few things about LaTeX, including the answer to
the question I asked (and Ingar Pareliussen answered) here on LyX-Users --
why do you need the \let\endoldenv=\endenv when modifying a LaTeX environment
using that old TeX trick.

Finally, it discusses getting the new environment working in LaTeX first, and
then putting a LyX wrapper around the LaTeX in a .layout file.

Enjoy!

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm

SteveT

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Re: LyX beta 2.0 on Mac

2007-05-19 Thread John Kane

--- Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On May 18, 2007, at 8:45 PM, John Kane wrote:
> 
> >
> > --- Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> On May 18, 2007, at 7:23 PM, John Kane wrote:
> >>
> >>> --- "A. Scottedward Hodel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >>>
>  I want to echo the praise for LyX given
> earlier.
>  I've used LyX in lecture and they are impressed
> with
>  the quick entry of equations, promptly followed
> by a
>  legible on-screen preview of the equations.
> It's a
>  wonderful tool.
> >>>
> >>> Can you give some more information about this?
> >>>
> >>> It sounds very useful
> >>
> >> LyX > Preferences > Graphics > Instant Preview.
> >> (Turn it on!)
> >>
> >> Bennett
> >>
> > Sounds good but I cannot find Preferences >
> Graphics
> 
> (Preferences > Look and Feel > Graphics > ...)
> 
> Bennett
> 
Ah, got it. Thanks


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Re: LyX 1.5(beta3) bugs/opinions/suggestions

2007-05-19 Thread Francesco Menoncin

Hello,

I have just installed LyX 1.5 (beta3) on Windows XP and:

1) as it happend to Michal, when installing it is impossible to dowload both 
English and Italian dictionary;


2) in contrast with Michal I perfectly see the output of the command $x \leq 
y$.


Nevertheless, I would like to thank all the guys who worked on LyX since it 
is really a WONDERFUL software!!


Francesco



- Original Message - 
From: "Michal Ramsza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 10:31 AM
Subject: LyX 1.5(beta3) bugs/opinions/suggestions



Hello,

I found at least 3 problems with LyX 1.5(beta3) on Windows XP.
1. Try to write $x \leq y$ - the \leq part is displayed as an empty box 
instead of the right symbol.
2. During install it's not possible to download a polish dictionary (Error 
404: no such file). In beta 2 it works fine.
3. If during an install of 1.5 the previous version (1.4.x) is still 
installed then one has to remove it manually.


One thing I don't understand: the way macros works - philosophy (and by a 
macro I mean \newcommand{}{}). In my opinion there is absolutely no reason 
to display a definition of a macro. It is far better to create a new 
dialog (or a part of a LaTeX Preamble dialog) and store/enter all 
definitions there instead of cluttering a text (how it looks graphically 
right now is fine, also handling of macros in a text is fine). What about 
environments?


Also, it would be nice to have some sort of help while entering the macros 
in math mode (a floating list I can display while writing or some 
interactive help). This will be especially of help if one has a large 
collection of macros. Quite often when I write a text I create macros for 
almost all variables, operators etc. since referees in journals like to 
change names of variables, say form $\phi$ to $\xi$, because of tradition, 
personal views etc. That way I am prepared.


Problem 1 is important (one needs to see what one writes).
Problems 2-3 are minor (fix would be useful).
Macro related stuff is minor (change would be useful but I guess in 
general it requires a larger discussion on a tool for creating 
layouts/templates).


Best wishes,
Michal Ramsza







LyX 1.5(beta3) bugs/opinions/suggestions

2007-05-19 Thread Michal Ramsza

Hello,

I found at least 3 problems with LyX 1.5(beta3) on Windows XP.
1. Try to write $x \leq y$ - the \leq part is displayed as an empty box 
instead of the right symbol.
2. During install it's not possible to download a polish dictionary 
(Error 404: no such file). In beta 2 it works fine.
3. If during an install of 1.5 the previous version (1.4.x) is still 
installed then one has to remove it manually.


One thing I don't understand: the way macros works - philosophy (and by 
a macro I mean \newcommand{}{}). In my opinion there is absolutely no 
reason to display a definition of a macro. It is far better to create a 
new dialog (or a part of a LaTeX Preamble dialog) and store/enter all 
definitions there instead of cluttering a text (how it looks graphically 
right now is fine, also handling of macros in a text is fine). What 
about environments?


Also, it would be nice to have some sort of help while entering the 
macros in math mode (a floating list I can display while writing or some 
interactive help). This will be especially of help if one has a large 
collection of macros. Quite often when I write a text I create macros 
for almost all variables, operators etc. since referees in journals like 
to change names of variables, say form $\phi$ to $\xi$, because of 
tradition, personal views etc. That way I am prepared.


Problem 1 is important (one needs to see what one writes).
Problems 2-3 are minor (fix would be useful).
Macro related stuff is minor (change would be useful but I guess in 
general it requires a larger discussion on a tool for creating 
layouts/templates).


Best wishes,
Michal Ramsza