Re: Lion

2011-07-20 Thread William Bray 
On Jul 20, 2011, at 6:32 PM, Richard Heck wrote:

 On 07/20/2011 12:24 PM, Anders Host-Madsen wrote:
 Has anyone tried LyX (2.0) under Mac OSX Lion? Has anyone encountered 
 any problems? I will wait with upgrading until I know LyX can 
 run under Lion.
 
 The way Apple breaks everyone else's applications with each new release
 is heartwarming. It reminds me of the old days. You know: DOS ain't done
 'til Lotus won't run.
 
 Richard
 
 
I upgraded to Lion on my Alum macbook today. Lyx 2.0 seems quite fine; haven't 
found anything broken as yet. Have tested my book files (rather long doc with 
child docs), and other things.

bill

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.7 is released!

2010-07-15 Thread William Bray 
I installed Lyx 1.6.7 on my mac running OSX 10.6.4 and encounter no problems
with mouse scrolling. I have not experimented with Lyx 2.0 as yet.

bill

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:09 AM, James C. Sutherland 
james.sutherl...@utah.edu wrote:

 It appears that mouse scrolling is broken on the Mac for LyX 1.6.7.  This
 same problem is present in the alpha versions of 2.0 on the Mac, and it
 looks like it slipped through the cracks for this release.

 Any chance of a patch being released in the very near future to fix this
 serious regression?

 James


 On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.orgwrote:

 Public release of LyX version 1.6.7
 ===

 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.7. This is the eighth
 maintenance release in the 1.6.x series.

 From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight
 particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with
 Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly
 with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade
 LyX as well.

 A detailed list of changes is appended below, remaining known problems
 are listed in the file RELEASE-NOTES.

 All users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

 In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
 http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:

   LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
   based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
   is released under a Free Software/Open Source license.

   LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
   right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
   details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with
   page boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's
   legendary TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.

   On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output --
   or richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks
   like nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs,
   all looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
   different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes
   'eating' your dissertation the evening before going to press.

   LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
   internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux, the
   Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.

 You can download LyX 1.6.7 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
 which yields smaller files):

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.7.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.7.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.7.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.7.tar.bz2

 and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will
 also host the .bz2 versions):

ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.7.tar.gz
http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.7.tar.gz

 ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.7.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.7.tar.gz


 http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.7.tar.gz
http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.7.tar.gz

 Prebuilt binaries (rpms for Linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
 installers) should soon be available at:

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.7/

 If you already have the sources of the previous release (1.6.6.1), you may
 want to apply one of the following patches instead:

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.7.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.7.bz2

 If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.7, you may either
 e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org),
 or open a bug report at http://www.lyx.org/trac/

 If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a
 question, first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find
 the answer there, e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users at
 lists.lyx.org).

 Enjoy!

 The LyX team.


 What's new in version 1.6.7?
 

 ** Updates:
 ***

 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

 - New -f [--force-overwrite] command line flag. Without any argument (or
  with 'all' as argument) all files are silently overwritten on export
  from the command line. Using 'main' as argument, only the main file will
  be overwritten.

 - New preference setting for selecting what to do when existing files are
  going to be overwritten on export from the GUI.

 - Detect LyXBlogger, a LyX to WordPress Blog Publishing Tool, if installed
  (bug 6658). See http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyXBlogger.


 * USER INTERFACE

 - Layout and template file for document class article (IEEEtran) were
  updated for IEEEtran 1.7a.

 - Do not unnecessarily truncate

Re: Will Lyx run on Mac OS X 10.6?

2009-08-29 Thread William Bray 
I am currently testing Lyx 1.6.4 under Snow Leopard, the official  
release. (I got the binary from the Lyx server before it was taken  
off; it does have the problem that Preferences is grayed out as a menu  
choice, but can be opened using keys CMD + , . I have not noticed any  
other problems with Lyx 1.6.4?)
I created a generic Lyx file, typed a bunch of stuff and let it sit.  
After about 5 minutes, a pop up window appeared reporting that Lyx  
crashed. My console report looks alot like the one in the bug report  
(link below). However, Lyx did not actually crash. After choosing  
Ignore, Lyx was still running and I could continue to type, save,  
edit, etc, the file.
The crash reoccurs about every 5 minutes, which does correspond to the  
autosave time set in preferences.
I turned off autosave and Lyx has not sent up another crash pop up as  
yet (we are about 15 minutes in at this point.


This is just a follow up to the question of Knaus. I am going to  
continue to use Lyx under Snow Leopard and see where it takes me.


Bill

On Aug 27, 2009, at 8:30 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote:


Hello,

I ordered the new Mac OS Snowleopard this week and I wonder
if any of the Lyx-(Mac)-Developers has already tested Lyx
under a Developer- Version of Snowleopard?

Will the Lyx-Binary run on Snowleopard?
Anyway, I'll test it and post it here.

Johannes.



We are a bit short on Mac developers, so I doubt that you'll get an
authorative answer.

But, the good news is that I've heard of someone running LyX on
Snowleopard, the bad news is that I heard this by means of a bug  
report:


http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6168.

So, it'll be interesting whether this crash actually has to do  
something

with Snowleopard or not.

Vincent

Re: How Many use linux

2009-09-12 Thread William Bray 
Have been using Lyx on Linux for the past nine years. Currently I run  
Lyx on Mac OS X (which is a beefed up Linux OS) and have Lyx on Ubuntu  
as a virtual machine. Happy user!!


Bill

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

2009-09-23 Thread William Bray 


On Sep 23, 2009, at 12:13 PM, rgheck wrote:


On 09/23/2009 11:48 AM, Johannes Knaus wrote:

Am 23.09.2009 um 16:57 schrieb James C. Sutherland:

On Sep 23, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Stefano Baroni wrote:


If so, would you please remind us how to disable autosave?

LyX - Preferences - Look  Feel - User Interface - Backup  
Documents every XXX Minutes


As said, you can't really disable autosave. No matter which number  
you type here, LyX does automatic saving.
I don't know if this is only a Mac specific issue or happens on all  
platforms. If so, what is the use of this preference?

What do others say?

The fix for this was committed to trunk and branch a few days ago,  
so autosave can be disabled in current 1.6.5svn. The problem was  
that a confusion between saving automatic backups and saving a  
backup for the original document had crept into the dialog somehow.  
So disabling autosave was actually disabling backups on saving.


Two suggestions to people on Snow Leopard, then. First, have people  
tried just setting the autosave time to 300? That's five hours  
between attempts and so crashes. Not perfect, but better.


Have tried this and it does not work. Lyx still crashes about every 5  
minutes.


Second, if you want the real fix, download and compile current  
branch from:

svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branch/BRANCH_1_6_X/
I posted a longish message about how to do this a couple weeks back,  
and there's info on the wiki tool.


Can you explain further what you mean by real fix? Just would like  
to know before I go through the compile process.


The fix for me of late has simply to hit CMD+S  about every three  
minutes. No false crashes occur at all if I am consistent.


Third, perhaps it's worth a plea for some kind of emergency release  
on Mac OSX, as there was an emergency release (1.6.4.1) on Windows.  
I'll float that idea on devel.


Richard

Re: Lion

2011-07-20 Thread William Bray 
On Jul 20, 2011, at 6:32 PM, Richard Heck wrote:

 On 07/20/2011 12:24 PM, Anders Host-Madsen wrote:
 Has anyone tried LyX (2.0) under Mac OSX Lion? Has anyone encountered 
 any problems? I will wait with upgrading until I know LyX can 
 run under Lion.
 
 The way Apple breaks everyone else's applications with each new release
 is heartwarming. It reminds me of the old days. You know: DOS ain't done
 'til Lotus won't run.
 
 Richard
 
 
I upgraded to Lion on my Alum macbook today. Lyx 2.0 seems quite fine; haven't 
found anything broken as yet. Have tested my book files (rather long doc with 
child docs), and other things.

bill

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.7 is released!

2010-07-15 Thread William Bray 
I installed Lyx 1.6.7 on my mac running OSX 10.6.4 and encounter no problems
with mouse scrolling. I have not experimented with Lyx 2.0 as yet.

bill

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:09 AM, James C. Sutherland 
james.sutherl...@utah.edu wrote:

 It appears that mouse scrolling is broken on the Mac for LyX 1.6.7.  This
 same problem is present in the alpha versions of 2.0 on the Mac, and it
 looks like it slipped through the cracks for this release.

 Any chance of a patch being released in the very near future to fix this
 serious regression?

 James


 On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.orgwrote:

 Public release of LyX version 1.6.7
 ===

 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.7. This is the eighth
 maintenance release in the 1.6.x series.

 From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight
 particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with
 Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly
 with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade
 LyX as well.

 A detailed list of changes is appended below, remaining known problems
 are listed in the file RELEASE-NOTES.

 All users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

 In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
 http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:

   LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
   based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
   is released under a Free Software/Open Source license.

   LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
   right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
   details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with
   page boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's
   legendary TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.

   On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output --
   or richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks
   like nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs,
   all looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
   different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes
   'eating' your dissertation the evening before going to press.

   LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
   internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux, the
   Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.

 You can download LyX 1.6.7 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
 which yields smaller files):

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.7.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.7.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.7.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.7.tar.bz2

 and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will
 also host the .bz2 versions):

ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.7.tar.gz
http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.7.tar.gz

 ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.7.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.7.tar.gz


 http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.7.tar.gz
http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.7.tar.gz

 Prebuilt binaries (rpms for Linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
 installers) should soon be available at:

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.7/

 If you already have the sources of the previous release (1.6.6.1), you may
 want to apply one of the following patches instead:

ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.7.gz
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.7.bz2

 If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.7, you may either
 e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org),
 or open a bug report at http://www.lyx.org/trac/

 If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a
 question, first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find
 the answer there, e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users at
 lists.lyx.org).

 Enjoy!

 The LyX team.


 What's new in version 1.6.7?
 

 ** Updates:
 ***

 * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

 - New -f [--force-overwrite] command line flag. Without any argument (or
  with 'all' as argument) all files are silently overwritten on export
  from the command line. Using 'main' as argument, only the main file will
  be overwritten.

 - New preference setting for selecting what to do when existing files are
  going to be overwritten on export from the GUI.

 - Detect LyXBlogger, a LyX to WordPress Blog Publishing Tool, if installed
  (bug 6658). See http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyXBlogger.


 * USER INTERFACE

 - Layout and template file for document class article (IEEEtran) were
  updated for IEEEtran 1.7a.

 - Do not unnecessarily truncate

Re: Will Lyx run on Mac OS X 10.6?

2009-08-29 Thread William Bray 
I am currently testing Lyx 1.6.4 under Snow Leopard, the official  
release. (I got the binary from the Lyx server before it was taken  
off; it does have the problem that Preferences is grayed out as a menu  
choice, but can be opened using keys CMD + , . I have not noticed any  
other problems with Lyx 1.6.4?)
I created a generic Lyx file, typed a bunch of stuff and let it sit.  
After about 5 minutes, a pop up window appeared reporting that Lyx  
crashed. My console report looks alot like the one in the bug report  
(link below). However, Lyx did not actually crash. After choosing  
Ignore, Lyx was still running and I could continue to type, save,  
edit, etc, the file.
The crash reoccurs about every 5 minutes, which does correspond to the  
autosave time set in preferences.
I turned off autosave and Lyx has not sent up another crash pop up as  
yet (we are about 15 minutes in at this point.


This is just a follow up to the question of Knaus. I am going to  
continue to use Lyx under Snow Leopard and see where it takes me.


Bill

On Aug 27, 2009, at 8:30 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote:


Hello,

I ordered the new Mac OS Snowleopard this week and I wonder
if any of the Lyx-(Mac)-Developers has already tested Lyx
under a Developer- Version of Snowleopard?

Will the Lyx-Binary run on Snowleopard?
Anyway, I'll test it and post it here.

Johannes.



We are a bit short on Mac developers, so I doubt that you'll get an
authorative answer.

But, the good news is that I've heard of someone running LyX on
Snowleopard, the bad news is that I heard this by means of a bug  
report:


http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6168.

So, it'll be interesting whether this crash actually has to do  
something

with Snowleopard or not.

Vincent

Re: How Many use linux

2009-09-12 Thread William Bray 
Have been using Lyx on Linux for the past nine years. Currently I run  
Lyx on Mac OS X (which is a beefed up Linux OS) and have Lyx on Ubuntu  
as a virtual machine. Happy user!!


Bill

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

2009-09-23 Thread William Bray 


On Sep 23, 2009, at 12:13 PM, rgheck wrote:


On 09/23/2009 11:48 AM, Johannes Knaus wrote:

Am 23.09.2009 um 16:57 schrieb James C. Sutherland:

On Sep 23, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Stefano Baroni wrote:


If so, would you please remind us how to disable autosave?

LyX - Preferences - Look  Feel - User Interface - Backup  
Documents every XXX Minutes


As said, you can't really disable autosave. No matter which number  
you type here, LyX does automatic saving.
I don't know if this is only a Mac specific issue or happens on all  
platforms. If so, what is the use of this preference?

What do others say?

The fix for this was committed to trunk and branch a few days ago,  
so autosave can be disabled in current 1.6.5svn. The problem was  
that a confusion between saving automatic backups and saving a  
backup for the original document had crept into the dialog somehow.  
So disabling autosave was actually disabling backups on saving.


Two suggestions to people on Snow Leopard, then. First, have people  
tried just setting the autosave time to 300? That's five hours  
between attempts and so crashes. Not perfect, but better.


Have tried this and it does not work. Lyx still crashes about every 5  
minutes.


Second, if you want the real fix, download and compile current  
branch from:

svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branch/BRANCH_1_6_X/
I posted a longish message about how to do this a couple weeks back,  
and there's info on the wiki tool.


Can you explain further what you mean by real fix? Just would like  
to know before I go through the compile process.


The fix for me of late has simply to hit CMD+S  about every three  
minutes. No false crashes occur at all if I am consistent.


Third, perhaps it's worth a plea for some kind of emergency release  
on Mac OSX, as there was an emergency release (1.6.4.1) on Windows.  
I'll float that idea on devel.


Richard

Re: Lion

2011-07-20 Thread William Bray 
On Jul 20, 2011, at 6:32 PM, Richard Heck wrote:

> On 07/20/2011 12:24 PM, Anders Host-Madsen wrote:
>> Has anyone tried LyX (2.0) under Mac OSX Lion? Has anyone encountered 
>> any problems? I will wait with upgrading until I know LyX can 
>> run under Lion.
>> 
> The way Apple breaks everyone else's applications with each new release
> is heartwarming. It reminds me of the old days. You know: DOS ain't done
> 'til Lotus won't run.
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
I upgraded to Lion on my Alum macbook today. Lyx 2.0 seems quite fine; haven't 
found anything broken as yet. Have tested my book files (rather long doc with 
child docs), and other things.

bill

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.7 is released!

2010-07-15 Thread William Bray 
I installed Lyx 1.6.7 on my mac running OSX 10.6.4 and encounter no problems
with mouse scrolling. I have not experimented with Lyx 2.0 as yet.

bill

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:09 AM, James C. Sutherland <
james.sutherl...@utah.edu> wrote:

> It appears that mouse scrolling is broken on the Mac for LyX 1.6.7.  This
> same problem is present in the alpha versions of 2.0 on the Mac, and it
> looks like it slipped through the cracks for this release.
>
> Any chance of a patch being released in the very near future to fix this
> serious regression?
>
> James
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
>
>> Public release of LyX version 1.6.7
>> ===
>>
>> We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.7. This is the eighth
>> maintenance release in the 1.6.x series.
>>
>> >From the list of fixes and improvements, we'd like to highlight
>> particularly that this release irons out all known stability problems with
>> Qt 4.6. LyX 1.6.7 is our first release that is supposed to run smoothly
>> with Qt 4.6, so we urge all distributors who use that version to upgrade
>> LyX as well.
>>
>> A detailed list of changes is appended below, remaining known problems
>> are listed in the file RELEASE-NOTES.
>>
>> All users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
>>
>> In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
>> http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
>>
>>   LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
>>   based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
>>   is released under a Free Software/Open Source license.
>>
>>   LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
>>   right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
>>   details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with
>>   page boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's
>>   legendary TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.
>>
>>   On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output --
>>   or richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks
>>   like nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs,
>>   all looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
>>   different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes
>>   'eating' your dissertation the evening before going to press.
>>
>>   LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
>>   internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux, the
>>   Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.
>>
>> You can download LyX 1.6.7 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
>> which yields smaller files):
>>
>>ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.7.tar.gz
>>ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.7.tar.bz2
>>ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.7.tar.gz
>>ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.6.7.tar.bz2
>>
>> and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will
>> also host the .bz2 versions):
>>
>>ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.7.tar.gz
>>http://lyx.cybermirror.org/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.7.tar.gz
>>
>> ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.7.tar.gz
>>ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.7.tar.gz
>>
>>
>> http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/editors/lyx/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.7.tar.gz
>>http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/1.6.x/lyx-1.6.7.tar.gz
>>
>> Prebuilt binaries (rpms for Linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
>> installers) should soon be available at:
>>
>>ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.7/
>>
>> If you already have the sources of the previous release (1.6.6.1), you may
>> want to apply one of the following patches instead:
>>
>>ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.7.gz
>>ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/1.6.x/patch-1.6.7.bz2
>>
>> If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.6.7, you may either
>> e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel  lists.lyx.org),
>> or open a bug report at http://www.lyx.org/trac/
>>
>> If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a
>> question, first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find
>> the answer there, e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users 
>> lists.lyx.org).
>>
>> Enjoy!
>>
>> The LyX team.
>>
>>
>> What's new in version 1.6.7?
>> 
>>
>> ** Updates:
>> ***
>>
>> * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
>>
>> - New -f [--force-overwrite] command line flag. Without any argument (or
>>  with 'all' as argument) all files are silently overwritten on export
>>  from the command line. Using 'main' as argument, only the main file will
>>  be overwritten.
>>
>> - New preference setting for selecting what to do when existing files are
>>  going to be overwritten on export from the GUI.
>>
>> - Detect LyXBlogger, a LyX to WordPress Blog Publishing Tool, if

Re: Will Lyx run on Mac OS X 10.6?

2009-08-29 Thread William Bray 
I am currently testing Lyx 1.6.4 under Snow Leopard, the official  
release. (I got the binary from the Lyx server before it was taken  
off; it does have the problem that Preferences is grayed out as a menu  
choice, but can be opened using keys CMD + , . I have not noticed any  
other problems with Lyx 1.6.4?)
I created a generic Lyx file, typed a bunch of stuff and let it sit.  
After about 5 minutes, a pop up window appeared reporting that Lyx  
crashed. My console report looks alot like the one in the bug report  
(link below). However, Lyx did not actually crash. After choosing  
Ignore, Lyx was still running and I could continue to type, save,  
edit, etc, the file.
The crash reoccurs about every 5 minutes, which does correspond to the  
autosave time set in preferences.
I turned off autosave and Lyx has not sent up another crash pop up as  
yet (we are about 15 minutes in at this point.


This is just a follow up to the question of Knaus. I am going to  
continue to use Lyx under Snow Leopard and see where it takes me.


Bill

On Aug 27, 2009, at 8:30 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote:


Hello,

I ordered the new Mac OS Snowleopard this week and I wonder
if any of the Lyx-(Mac)-Developers has already tested Lyx
under a Developer- Version of Snowleopard?

Will the Lyx-Binary run on Snowleopard?
Anyway, I'll test it and post it here.

Johannes.



We are a bit short on Mac developers, so I doubt that you'll get an
authorative answer.

But, the good news is that I've heard of someone running LyX on
Snowleopard, the bad news is that I heard this by means of a bug  
report:


http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6168.

So, it'll be interesting whether this crash actually has to do  
something

with Snowleopard or not.

Vincent

Re: How Many use linux

2009-09-12 Thread William Bray 
Have been using Lyx on Linux for the past nine years. Currently I run  
Lyx on Mac OS X (which is a beefed up Linux OS) and have Lyx on Ubuntu  
as a virtual machine. Happy user!!


Bill

Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard

2009-09-23 Thread William Bray 


On Sep 23, 2009, at 12:13 PM, rgheck wrote:


On 09/23/2009 11:48 AM, Johannes Knaus wrote:

Am 23.09.2009 um 16:57 schrieb James C. Sutherland:

On Sep 23, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Stefano Baroni wrote:


If so, would you please remind us how to disable autosave?

LyX -> Preferences -> Look & Feel -> User Interface -> "Backup  
Documents every XXX Minutes"


As said, you can't really disable autosave. No matter which number  
you type here, LyX does automatic saving.
I don't know if this is only a Mac specific issue or happens on all  
platforms. If so, what is the use of this preference?

What do others say?

The fix for this was committed to trunk and branch a few days ago,  
so autosave can be disabled in current 1.6.5svn. The problem was  
that a confusion between saving automatic backups and saving a  
backup for the original document had crept into the dialog somehow.  
So "disabling autosave" was actually disabling backups on saving.


Two suggestions to people on Snow Leopard, then. First, have people  
tried just setting the autosave time to 300? That's five hours  
between attempts and so "crashes". Not perfect, but better.


Have tried this and it does not work. Lyx still crashes about every 5  
minutes.


Second, if you want the real fix, download and compile current  
branch from:

svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branch/BRANCH_1_6_X/
I posted a longish message about how to do this a couple weeks back,  
and there's info on the wiki tool.


Can you explain further what you mean by "real fix"? Just would like  
to know before I go through the compile process.


The fix for me of late has simply to hit CMD+S  about every three  
minutes. No false crashes occur at all if I am consistent.


Third, perhaps it's worth a plea for some kind of emergency release  
on Mac OSX, as there was an emergency release (1.6.4.1) on Windows.  
I'll float that idea on devel.


Richard