best practices for Compare feature?

Dear LyX users, I am attempting to compare two versions of a LyX document using Tools - Compare. The document is roughly 60,000 characters including spaces, and my rough estimate is that 5% of the document has been changed between the two versions. I suspect I am doing something wrong, because

Re: best practices for Compare feature?

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:15:20AM -0500, Bert Lloyd wrote: > Dear LyX users, > > I am attempting to compare two versions of a LyX document using Tools > - Compare. The document is roughly 60,000 characters including spaces, > and my rough estimate is that 5% of the document has been changed >

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

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

Re: best practices for Compare feature?

Dear Bert, I have had this problem, without finding the cause. I use Compare quite often on a 100 page document (which has multiple maintainers and regular updates), and usually, the Differences file is generated in a few minutes. Twice, Compare has behaved as you describe