LyX version 2.3.0 (beta 1)

[Scott Kostyshak]

Public release of LyX version 2.3.0beta1


We are proud to announce the first public beta of the new LyX 2.3 series.
This pre-release is meant for testing and should not be used for serious work.
For curious users who would like to test in order to help catch bugs before
the 2.3.0 release, please back up all of your documents and be prepared for
the worst to happen. Most users (who desire a stable LyX version) should not
use this pre-release.

The 2.3 series has a rich set of new features compared to the current stable
series. An overview of the new features can be found here:

  http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX23

You can download LyX 2.3.0beta1 from ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/.

We appreciate your help in testing this pre-release!

The file lib/RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues and problems compared
to the current stable releases (LyX 2.2.x). We strongly recommend that
packagers of LyX on various platforms and distributions read this file.

As with any major release, this one comes with a lot of new features but
also some bugs. If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.3.0beta1, either
email the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org),
or open a bug report at https://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome.
Please specify if the behavior you are reporting is different from behavior
in a previous LyX version.

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Key binding of unicode-insert problem

[Shieh, Sanford]

I'm trying to bind unicode-insert of accents and umlauts on vowels using a bind 
file, and running into the following issue.

I have the following line in the bind file:

\bind   "M-S-: u" "unicode-insert 00FC" # umlaut lower u

But in the Preference Editing Shortcuts dialog box this shows up weirdly (also 
in attached JPEG)

[cid:image001.jpg@01D31769.E2D60C80]

As this screenshot shows, there's no problem when I use the dialog box to bind 
to the alt-shift-: followed by u combination.

Is this an issue with Win7, which I'm using?

Sorry if this problem has already been solved, I couldn't find a solution in 
the LyX list.

Sanford Shieh
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
Wesleyan University
350 High Street
Middletown, CT 06459
USA
+1 (860) 685-3646 (office)
+1 (860) 685-3861 (fax)
mailto:sanford.sh...@wesleyan.edu>>
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Re: Key binding of unicode-insert problem

[Richard Heck]

On 08/17/2017 03:04 PM, Shieh, Sanford wrote:
>
> I’m trying to bind unicode-insert of accents and umlauts on vowels
> using a bind file, and running into the following issue.
>
>  
>
> I have the following line in the bind file:
>
>  
>
> \bind   "M-S-: u" "unicode-insert 00FC" # umlaut lower u
>
>  
>
> But in the Preference Editing Shortcuts dialog box this shows up
> weirdly (also in attached JPEG)
>
>  
>
>  
>
> As this screenshot shows, there’s no problem when I use the dialog box
> to bind to the alt-shift-: followed by u combination.
>
>  
>
> Is this an issue with Win7, which I’m using? 
>

I also see something weird in the dialog, but it's a different weird
from yours. This is on Linux. My guess is that there is some kind of
font problem.

Can you file a bug about this at lyx.org/trac/?

Richard

RE: Key binding of unicode-insert problem

[Shieh, Sanford]

OK, will do.

Sanford

Sanford Shieh
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
Wesleyan University
350 High Street
Middletown, CT 06459
USA
+1 (860) 685-3646 (office)
+1 (860) 685-3861 (fax)
mailto:sanford.sh...@wesleyan.edu>>
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From: Richard Heck [mailto:rgh...@lyx.org]
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2017 3:11 PM
To: Shieh, Sanford ; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Key binding of unicode-insert problem

On 08/17/2017 03:04 PM, Shieh, Sanford wrote:
I'm trying to bind unicode-insert of accents and umlauts on vowels using a bind 
file, and running into the following issue.

I have the following line in the bind file:

\bind   "M-S-: u" "unicode-insert 00FC" # umlaut lower u

But in the Preference Editing Shortcuts dialog box this shows up weirdly (also 
in attached JPEG)

[cid:image001.jpg@01D3176C.5B9ED8C0]

As this screenshot shows, there's no problem when I use the dialog box to bind 
to the alt-shift-: followed by u combination.

Is this an issue with Win7, which I'm using?

I also see something weird in the dialog, but it's a different weird from 
yours. This is on Linux. My guess is that there is some kind of font problem.

Can you file a bug about this at lyx.org/trac/?

Richard

Re: Key binding of unicode-insert problem

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 08/17/2017 03:10 PM, Richard Heck wrote:

On 08/17/2017 03:04 PM, Shieh, Sanford wrote:


I’m trying to bind unicode-insert of accents and umlauts on vowels 
using a bind file, and running into the following issue.


I have the following line in the bind file:

\bind   "M-S-: u" "unicode-insert 00FC" # umlaut lower u

But in the Preference Editing Shortcuts dialog box this shows up 
weirdly (also in attached JPEG)


As this screenshot shows, there’s no problem when I use the dialog 
box to bind to the alt-shift-: followed by u combination.


Is this an issue with Win7, which I’m using?



I also see something weird in the dialog, but it's a different weird 
from yours. This is on Linux. My guess is that there is some kind of 
font problem.


Can you file a bug about this at lyx.org/trac/?

Richard

I also get something different but weird (and consistent with respect to 
changes I made to various elements), also on Linux.


The issue seems to be the colon. If you spell out the word in the bind 
file (i.e., "M-S-colon u"), it works fine. That's what ends up in the 
bind file when you enter it through the dialog. Putting a literal ":" in 
the bind file seems to create havoc.


Paul

RE: Key binding of unicode-insert problem

[Shieh, Sanford]

On Win7 it seems not to be only the colon.  I have three other bind file 
weirdnesses

\bind   "C-S-%" "unicode-insert 00A7" # section sign

\bind   "C-'" "unicode-insert 0027" # dumb right single quote
\bind   "'" "quote-insert single" # smart single quote

The latter two I did because I wanted to have the ' key act as a smart single 
quote.  The results are however:

[cid:image002.jpg@01D3177B.AD6CEED0]

So I still have to use the dialog box to do these bindings.

The smart single quote is really weird, and I don't understand quite what I did 
in the dialog box to get the right result, but here's what it looks like:

[cid:image003.jpg@01D3177B.AD6CEED0]

Sanford

Sanford Shieh
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
Wesleyan University
350 High Street
Middletown, CT 06459
USA
+1 (860) 685-3646 (office)
+1 (860) 685-3861 (fax)
mailto:sanford.sh...@wesleyan.edu>>
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From: Paul A. Rubin [mailto:parubi...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2017 4:45 PM
To: Richard Heck ; Shieh, Sanford ; 
lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Key binding of unicode-insert problem

On 08/17/2017 03:10 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
On 08/17/2017 03:04 PM, Shieh, Sanford wrote:
I'm trying to bind unicode-insert of accents and umlauts on vowels using a bind 
file, and running into the following issue.

I have the following line in the bind file:

\bind   "M-S-: u" "unicode-insert 00FC" # umlaut lower u

But in the Preference Editing Shortcuts dialog box this shows up weirdly (also 
in attached JPEG)

[cid:image001.jpg@01D3177A.5703C470]

As this screenshot shows, there's no problem when I use the dialog box to bind 
to the alt-shift-: followed by u combination.

Is this an issue with Win7, which I'm using?

I also see something weird in the dialog, but it's a different weird from 
yours. This is on Linux. My guess is that there is some kind of font problem.

Can you file a bug about this at lyx.org/trac/?

Richard
I also get something different but weird (and consistent with respect to 
changes I made to various elements), also on Linux.

The issue seems to be the colon. If you spell out the word in the bind file 
(i.e., "M-S-colon u"), it works fine. That's what ends up in the bind file when 
you enter it through the dialog. Putting a literal ":" in the bind file seems 
to create havoc.

Paul

Re: Key binding of unicode-insert problem

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 08/17/2017 05:13 PM, Shieh, Sanford wrote:


On Win7 it seems not to be only the colon.  I have three other bind 
file weirdnesses


\bind   "C-S-%" "unicode-insert 00A7" # section sign

\bind   "C-'" "unicode-insert 0027" # dumb right single quote

\bind   "'" "quote-insert single" # smart single quote

The latter two I did because I wanted to have the ' key act as a smart 
single quote.  The results are however:


So I still have to use the dialog box to do these bindings.

The smart single quote is really weird, and I don’t understand quite 
what I did in the dialog box to get the right result, but here’s what 
it looks like:



Again, punctuation marks need to be spelled out in the bind file. Try 
"C-S-percent", "C-apostrophe" and "apostrophe" respectively.


Mind you, I have no idea why LyX chokes on punctuation marks in the key 
combination specifications of the bind file, but that seems to be what 
is happening.


Paul

RE: Key binding of unicode-insert problem

[Shieh, Sanford]

OK, great, this now works fine.  Thanks.

Sanford

Sanford Shieh
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
Wesleyan University
350 High Street
Middletown, CT 06459
USA
+1 (860) 685-3646 (office)
+1 (860) 685-3861 (fax)
mailto:sanford.sh...@wesleyan.edu>>
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From: Paul A. Rubin [mailto:parubi...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2017 5:49 PM
To: Shieh, Sanford ; Richard Heck ; 
lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Key binding of unicode-insert problem

On 08/17/2017 05:13 PM, Shieh, Sanford wrote:
On Win7 it seems not to be only the colon.  I have three other bind file 
weirdnesses

\bind   "C-S-%" "unicode-insert 00A7" # section sign

\bind   "C-'" "unicode-insert 0027" # dumb right single quote
\bind   "'" "quote-insert single" # smart single quote

The latter two I did because I wanted to have the ' key act as a smart single 
quote.  The results are however:

[cid:image001.jpg@01D31781.1F2DED80]

So I still have to use the dialog box to do these bindings.

The smart single quote is really weird, and I don't understand quite what I did 
in the dialog box to get the right result, but here's what it looks like:

[cid:image002.jpg@01D31781.1F2DED80]

Again, punctuation marks need to be spelled out in the bind file. Try 
"C-S-percent", "C-apostrophe" and "apostrophe" respectively.

Mind you, I have no idea why LyX chokes on punctuation marks in the key 
combination specifications of the bind file, but that seems to be what is 
happening.

Paul

Re: Key binding of unicode-insert problem

[Richard Heck]

On 08/17/2017 05:50 PM, Shieh, Sanford wrote:
>
> OK, great, this now works fine.  Thanks.
>

Probably still worth a bug report. At the very least we should make
sure this is documented somewhere.

Richard

 
>
> *From:*Paul A. Rubin [mailto:parubi...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 17, 2017 5:49 PM
> *To:* Shieh, Sanford ; Richard Heck
> ; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> *Subject:* Re: Key binding of unicode-insert problem
>
>  
>
> On 08/17/2017 05:13 PM, Shieh, Sanford wrote:
>
> On Win7 it seems not to be only the colon.  I have three other
> bind file weirdnesses
>
>  
>
> \bind   "C-S-%" "unicode-insert 00A7" # section sign
>
>  
>
> \bind   "C-'" "unicode-insert 0027" # dumb right single quote
>
> \bind   "'" "quote-insert single" # smart single quote
>
>  
>
> The latter two I did because I wanted to have the ' key act as a
> smart single quote.  The results are however:
>
>  
>
>  
>
> So I still have to use the dialog box to do these bindings.
>
>  
>
> The smart single quote is really weird, and I don’t understand
> quite what I did in the dialog box to get the right result, but
> here’s what it looks like:
>
>  
>
>  
>
> Again, punctuation marks need to be spelled out in the bind file. Try
> "C-S-percent", "C-apostrophe" and "apostrophe" respectively.
>
> Mind you, I have no idea why LyX chokes on punctuation marks in the
> key combination specifications of the bind file, but that seems to be
> what is happening.
>
> Paul
>