Re: Math Palettes are ineffective (MAC OS EL CAPITAN - LyX 2.1.4)

[James Sutherland]

I can confirm this problem.
My suggestion is to type out the latex form for characters rather than
using the palettes.  This is faster, but does require that you know the
latex form.
James


On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Pierre Bessière 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just updated Lyx to 2.1.4 on a Powerbook Pro with OS X (10.11.1).
> There is a very interesting, strange and bothersome phenomena : the math
> palettes are „transparent“ for the mouse.
> If you click on a math palette with a background that is not the Lyx
> window, it works.
> On the contrary if you click on a math palette with a background that is
> the Lyx window, then what you get is what you would get without the math
> palette popped…
> I saw some discussions on that subject in the archive in early October but
> no solution.
> Any one has anything to suggest ?
>
> Thanks :-)
> _
> Pierre Bessière
> pie...@bessiere.org 
> Skype: Pierre.Bessiere
> _
>
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>

Re: best practices for Compare feature?

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 14/11/2015 19:05, Gordon Cooper a écrit :

Certainly, will do.  Files are a software manual and readily
available.


Thanks. Of course, we can't guarantee that we will find a fix, but we 
have to try at least...


JMarc

Re: best practices for Compare feature?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
 wrote:
> Le 14/11/2015 19:05, Gordon Cooper a écrit :
>>
>> Certainly, will do.  Files are a software manual and readily
>> available.
>
>
> Thanks. Of course, we can't guarantee that we will find a fix, but we have
> to try at least...
>
I recall reading some time ago that if we switched the LyX source to
valid XML, our diff troubles would evaporate (along with a number of
other difficulties, like epub conversion). Is this still so? And are
we any closer to XML'ing .lyx files?

Liviu


> JMarc
>



-- 
Do you think you know what math is?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02
Or what it means to be intelligent?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30
Think again:
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library

Re: best practices for Compare feature?

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 16/11/2015 10:14, Liviu Andronic a écrit :

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
 wrote:

Le 14/11/2015 19:05, Gordon Cooper a écrit :


Certainly, will do.  Files are a software manual and readily
available.



Thanks. Of course, we can't guarantee that we will find a fix, but we have
to try at least...


I recall reading some time ago that if we switched the LyX source to
valid XML, our diff troubles would evaporate (along with a number of
other difficulties, like epub conversion).


I'm not sure, but indeed one can expect that a xmldiff tool exists 
somewhere and one may hope that it is correctly implemented :)



Is this still so? And are
we any closer to XML'ing .lyx files?


No, we did not move on that. I tend to be suspicious of miraculous 
solutions, though.


JMarc

Re: best practices for Compare feature?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
 wrote:
> Le 16/11/2015 10:14, Liviu Andronic a écrit :
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Le 14/11/2015 19:05, Gordon Cooper a écrit :


 Certainly, will do.  Files are a software manual and readily
 available.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks. Of course, we can't guarantee that we will find a fix, but we
>>> have
>>> to try at least...
>>>
>> I recall reading some time ago that if we switched the LyX source to
>> valid XML, our diff troubles would evaporate (along with a number of
>> other difficulties, like epub conversion).
>
>
> I'm not sure, but indeed one can expect that a xmldiff tool exists somewhere
> and one may hope that it is correctly implemented :)
>
A quick search for "xmldiff" suggests that we'd be more hard-pressed
to choose one, rather than find one:
https://www.logilab.org/859/
http://diffxml.sourceforge.net/


>> Is this still so? And are
>> we any closer to XML'ing .lyx files?
>
>
> No, we did not move on that. I tend to be suspicious of miraculous
> solutions, though.
>
This article may be relevant when it comes to diffing XML:
http://www.adrianmouat.com/bit-bucket/2009/05/why-use-diffxml/


Liviu



> JMarc
>



-- 
Do you think you know what math is?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02
Or what it means to be intelligent?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30
Think again:
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library