Re: Testing Release of 2.4.0 Development Branch

2020-10-30 Thread Shay Riggs
On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 22:09, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > Hi, everyone, > > We are beginning the process of moving towards the next major release of > LyX, which will be 2.4.0. Toward that end, we have prepared a 'testing' > release. Please note that this is very much for testing. We do not >

Re: LyX acting differently between computers

2020-10-30 Thread Eberhard W Lisse
John, that would depend on whether you have X11 or whatever goes for Window Manager on Debian/Raspia , and whether the developers produce a DEB. If the latter doesn’t apply, the one would have to try and compile it, which might require a number of additional libraries, but could work. I run

Re: LyX acting differently between computers

2020-10-30 Thread John White
Hi Doc! Somebody gave me a Raspberry PI the other day and I have no clue what to do with it. Does Lyx work on it? Does Lyx work on Raspbian ? Hope this finds you well and happy. John On Thursday, October 29, 2020 11:38:20 PM PDT Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > Or, > > actually this both

RE: LyX acting differently between computers

2020-10-30 Thread Bernt Lie
I use LyX with MikTeX on Windows daily. It is not problem-free, so I'm open to test out TeXLive (or LuaTeX?). The important questions wrt. TeX distribution is whether the choice *limits*... * available styles/packages/etc. that can be used, * stability, * ease of use * speed of operation -B

Re: LyX acting differently between computers

2020-10-30 Thread José Abílio Matos
On Friday, October 30, 2020 6:55:57 PM WET Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > And I am not criticizing one bit the efforts of the LyX trying to make this > work on Windows. > > el I did *not* read it that way either. :-) -- José Abílio-- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

RE: LyX acting differently between computers

2020-10-30 Thread Eberhard W Lisse
And I am not criticizing one bit the efforts of the LyX trying to make this work on Windows. el — Sent from Dr Lisse’s iPad Mini 5 On 30 Oct 2020, 18:13 +0200, Bernt Lie , wrote: > I use LyX with MikTeX on Windows daily. It is not problem-free, so I'm open > to test out TeXLive (or LuaTeX?). >

Re: Testing Release of 2.4.0 Development Branch

2020-10-30 Thread José Abílio Matos
On Thursday, October 29, 2020 10:09:24 PM WET Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > Both source code and binaries for Windows and OSX can be found here: > > http://ftp.lyx.org/ftp/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.4/ > > Binaries for various Linux distros may or may not be available from > their associated

Re: Testing Release of 2.4.0 Development Branch

2020-10-30 Thread Yu Jin
Am Fr., 30. Okt. 2020 um 09:21 Uhr schrieb Baris Erkus < bariser...@hotmail.com>: > On 30-Oct-20 1:09 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > > Hi, everyone, > > > > We are beginning the process of moving towards the next major release of > > LyX, which will be 2.4.0. Toward that end, we have prepared

Re: LyX acting differently between computers

2020-10-30 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 10/30/20 2:38 AM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: Or, actually this both means, get rid of Windows :-)-O Seriously, I have tried to get LyX and MikTeX working on Windows, but given up. The LyX project itself does not have an official view about TeX distributions, but our experience has tended

Re: Testing Release of 2.4.0 Development Branch

2020-10-30 Thread Baris Erkus
On 30-Oct-20 1:09 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: Hi, everyone, We are beginning the process of moving towards the next major release of LyX, which will be 2.4.0. Toward that end, we have prepared a 'testing' release. Please note that this is very much for testing. We do not necessarily

Re: Changes to LaTeX

2020-10-30 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2020-10-14, John White wrote: > Isn't git owned by Gates? Git (the program) is open source, the hosting site github includes non-free parts and is owned by Microsoft (so, if you bye Microsoft shares also by you, partially). Günter -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

Re: LyX acting differently between computers

2020-10-30 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Or, actually this both means, get rid of Windows :-)-O Seriously, I have tried to get LyX and MikTeX working on Windows, but given up. And I need Windows for my practice software, so I run it now in Virtual Box on an iMac which works out well. Not only for LyX. On my servers I run Ubuntu by