Re: LyX 2.4.0, Release Candidate 1

2024-01-15 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Jan 15, 2024, at 2:40 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > The LyX team is happy (and relieved) to announce the publication of the first > 'release candidate' for the long awaited 2.4.0. Just compiled it under Linux and was very happy to see that y’all fixed the chonky (specifically, overly

Icon "padding"

2023-08-26 Thread Christopher Menzel
LyX folk: There is a significant difference in the "padding" around the icons in 2.4.0-beta3 compared to 2.3.7. The difference is particularly stark when comparing 2.3.7 under MacOS

Alt/Option key question

2023-03-30 Thread Christopher Menzel
Gentle LyX folk: I use the Emacs UI for LyX, which means the Option key (or Alt key, for PC users) gets a good workout — e.g., Opt-D deletes word-forward, Opt-F moves the cursor forward by word, etc. (In the standard LyX UI, those keys bring up the File and Document menus, respectively, so I

Re: About upgrading to MacOS 13

2022-12-07 Thread Christopher Menzel
Hi Daniel, I have used LyX 2.3.6.2 under Ventura and did find that it crashed regularly. Since the version on LyX.org is still only compiled for Intel, perhaps Rosetta is the problem. And just to note, in case it is helpful: if you are familiar with Linux and have, or don’t mind purchasing, a

Compile fail

2022-09-01 Thread Christopher Menzel
LyX folk: I’ve successfully compiled LyX from sources under Linux but my attempts to do so under MacOS for my M1 Macs (since I don’t want to use Rosetta 2). I installed QT5 using homebrew and I’m using what seem to me to be the right flags for the configure script, viz., % ./configure

Re: Missing lyxeditor.cmd?

2019-08-22 Thread Christopher Menzel
On 22 Aug 2019, at 10:39 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 8/22/19 10:48 AM, Chris Menzel wrote: >> Gentle LyX folk, >> >> I have installed LyX 2.3.3 on a Dell XPS laptop and, Lo, the installation's >> bin directory appears to be missing lyxeditor.cmd, which is of course >> crucial for

Re: Bug in 2.2.2 for Mac

2016-10-16 Thread Christopher Menzel
Everything appears to be back to normal! Thanks! -chris On 16 Oct 2016, at 8:13 AM, Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net> wrote: > Am 16.10.2016 um 00:43 schrieb Christopher Menzel <chris.men...@gmail.com > <mailto:chris.men...@gmail.com>>: >> >> Sor

Re: Bug in 2.2.2 for Mac

2016-10-15 Thread Christopher Menzel
5/2016 04:38 PM, Christopher Menzel wrote: > >> >>> On 15 Oct 2016, at 4:31 PM, Christopher Menzel <chris.men...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Howdy LyX developers, >>> >>> There appears to be a bug in 2.2.2 for Mac (LyX-2.2.2+qt5-x86

Re: Bug in 2.2.2 for Mac

2016-10-15 Thread Christopher Menzel
Oops, very sorry about that enormous screen shot! I don't know what I was thinking. Here's a vastly smaller jpeg of the dropdown menu. -chris > On 15 Oct 2016, at 4:31 PM, Christopher Menzel <chris.men...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Howdy LyX developers, > > There appears

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.2.2 Released

2016-10-15 Thread Christopher Menzel
he whole LyX development team for this wonderful, incredibly useful piece of software. It is an absolute joy to use, and a marvel of collaborative, open source software design and engineering. -chris -- Christopher Menzel Professor of Philosophy Texas A University

Lower case mathcal

2015-11-24 Thread Christopher Menzel
Dear LyX folk, Quick question — what would it take to get display support for lower case calligraphic letters, which you can get in your rendered PDF via a package like BOONDOX-cal. Currently, typing lower case letters inside a \mathcal tag in math mode generates a seemingly random selection

Re: Does LyX work with MBP Retina screen?

2015-10-17 Thread Christopher Menzel
with Qt 4.8 available I'd appreciate it! -chris On 17 Oct 2015, at 11:31 AM, Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net> wrote: > Am 16.10.2015 um 22:49 schrieb Christopher Menzel <chris.men...@gmail.com>: > >> Greetings Stephan, >> >> One issue: the “Do not swap Apple and

Re: Retina support

2015-01-09 Thread Christopher Menzel
of the slight fuzziness and pixelation visible at very close range. -chris Christopher Menzel mailto:chris.men...@gmail.com December 26, 2014 at 5:45 PM LyX folk: I have a couple of questions concerning LyX on the new 5k iMac. 1. Stephan Witt had noted some time ago that Retina support

Re: Retina support

2015-01-09 Thread Christopher Menzel
minion-pro/>) there is virtually no perception of the slight fuzziness and pixelation visible at very close range. -chris Christopher Menzel <mailto:chris.men...@gmail.com> December 26, 2014 at 5:45 PM LyX folk: I have a couple of questions concerning LyX on the new 5k iMac. 1. Stephan Witt h

Retina support

2014-12-26 Thread Christopher Menzel
LyX folk: I have a couple of questions concerning LyX on the new 5k iMac. 1. Stephan Witt had noted some time ago that Retina support was in development for LyX. Does anyone have a reasonable sense of the ETA for such support in an OS X binary? 2. Despite some screen font blurriness up

Retina support

2014-12-26 Thread Christopher Menzel
LyX folk: I have a couple of questions concerning LyX on the new 5k iMac. 1. Stephan Witt had noted some time ago that Retina support was in development for LyX. Does anyone have a reasonable sense of the ETA for such support in an OS X binary? 2. Despite some screen font blurriness up

Re: Yosemite problems...

2014-11-12 Thread Christopher Menzel
I've been having this problem with embedded PDFs as well since at least 2.1.1. (As with Murat, they do render successfully if I start LyX from the CL.) -chris Murat Yildizoglu wrote: Hi, I have updated by MacBook to Yosemite and LyX to the last version (2.1.2.1). This solves the problem of

Re: Yosemite problems...

2014-11-12 Thread Christopher Menzel
I've been having this problem with embedded PDFs as well since at least 2.1.1. (As with Murat, they do render successfully if I start LyX from the CL.) -chris Murat Yildizoglu wrote: Hi, I have updated by MacBook to Yosemite and LyX to the last version (2.1.2.1). This solves the problem of

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.1.2.1 Released

2014-10-31 Thread Christopher Menzel
I did a clean network install of Mountain Lion on a 2013 iMac last night, upgraded immediately to Yosemite, and then installed MacTeX 2014 and LyX 2.1.2.1 first thing. After starting LyX from the GUI I still got the previewing bug where none of my .cls files could be found during the compile.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.1.2.1 Released

2014-10-31 Thread Christopher Menzel
I did a clean network install of Mountain Lion on a 2013 iMac last night, upgraded immediately to Yosemite, and then installed MacTeX 2014 and LyX 2.1.2.1 first thing. After starting LyX from the GUI I still got the previewing bug where none of my .cls files could be found during the compile.

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX version 2.0.0 (beta 2)

2010-12-07 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Dec 7, 2010, at 6:56 PM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: I have installed the Beta2 in Mac OSX. It just works out of the box. Magnificent! I have also read in detail the WhatsNew page and the additions are really impressive (I love many of them: Sweave support, inline spell-check, native spell

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX version 2.0.0 (beta 2)

2010-12-07 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Dec 7, 2010, at 6:56 PM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: > I have installed the Beta2 in Mac OSX. It just works out of the box. > Magnificent! > I have also read in detail the WhatsNew page and the additions are really > impressive (I love many of them: Sweave support, inline spell-check, native >

Re: LyX 2.0beta1 crashes if Xref inserted into eqnarray

2010-12-06 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Dec 6, 2010, at 11:46 AM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Christopher Menzel cmen...@tamu.edu wrote: LyX 2.0beta1 (dated 10 Nov) crashes consistently when I try to insert a cross reference to a labeled lemma, theorem or corollary into a cell of an eqnarray. If I

Re: LyX 2.0beta1 crashes if Xref inserted into eqnarray

2010-12-06 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Dec 6, 2010, at 11:46 AM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Christopher Menzel <cmen...@tamu.edu> wrote: >> LyX 2.0beta1 (dated 10 Nov) crashes consistently when I try to insert a >> cross reference to a labeled lemma, theorem or

LyX 2.0beta1 crashes if Xref inserted into eqnarray

2010-12-05 Thread Christopher Menzel
Howdy developers, LyX 2.0beta1 (dated 10 Nov) crashes consistently when I try to insert a cross reference to a labeled lemma, theorem or corollary into a cell of an eqnarray. If I try to copy and paste a cross-ref to the relevant lemma/thm/corollary from outside the eqnarray into the cell, the

LyX 2.0beta1 crashes if Xref inserted into eqnarray

2010-12-05 Thread Christopher Menzel
Howdy developers, LyX 2.0beta1 (dated 10 Nov) crashes consistently when I try to insert a cross reference to a labeled lemma, theorem or corollary into a cell of an eqnarray. If I try to copy and paste a cross-ref to the relevant lemma/thm/corollary from outside the eqnarray into the cell, the

Re: Compile failure

2007-11-04 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Nov 4, 2007, at 9:18 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: I'm also using Qt-4.3.1; I don't know if that would make a difference. I'll try compiling Qt-4.3.2 to see what happens. Qt-4.3.2 works fine for me. One question: did you set LDFLAGS? Yup. As per the instructions in INSTALL.MacOSX, I used:

Re: Compile failure

2007-11-04 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Nov 4, 2007, at 9:18 PM, Bennett Helm wrote: I'm also using Qt-4.3.1; I don't know if that would make a difference. I'll try compiling Qt-4.3.2 to see what happens. Qt-4.3.2 works fine for me. One question: did you set LDFLAGS? Yup. As per the instructions in INSTALL.MacOSX, I used: