Donation Problem

[Baris Erkus]

Hello,

I tried to make a donation for the new version but PayPal is too complicated 
and I cannot do donate through it. Any other means for donation?

Thank you.

BE

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Re: Important poll: would this dialog be confusing?

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 10:27:25PM +, Charles Roddie wrote:
> What matters most of all is a release. I understand that Windows release has 
> been held up by extensive discussions over this issue of whether to include a 
> dialog. This is a minor issue as few people read dialogs. Having a dialog is 
> fine, and not having a dialog is fine.

Thanks for the feedback.

> Not having a version available for Windows however is a major problem for 
> users.

If there's one thing everyone here agrees on, it is this.

> Also may I suggest that you upgrade your email list to a forum? It's unclear 
> how to interact with this list without reading  
> https://www.lyx.org/MailingLists in 
> detail in its entirety and even then it's not self-contained.
> 
> Apologies for the complaints: I appreciate the work of the lyx developers and 
> the new features in 2.3 sound great.

Thanks,

Scott


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Re: Long preview compilation due to unnecessarily often calling pdflatex?

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 08:20:55PM +, Klaus-Dieter Bauer wrote:
> I attached a simple example file. Sorry for the late replay, seems I didn't
> get the previous message.

Thanks for the example file!

> shows no changes between 3rd and 4th pass.

I can reproduce that LyX does 4 compilations.

Hopefully someone here knows whether there's something we should
improve.

Best,

Scott


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Re: LyX 2.3.0 Released

[Liviu Andronic]

On 3/16/18, Scott Kostyshak  wrote:
> Public release of LyX version 2.3.0
> 
>

Ubuntu packages are now available on the PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/ubuntu/release


Regards,
Liviu


> We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.3.0.
>
> With this release, LyX celebrates 22 years of existence. The 2.3 series
> has a rich set of new features compared to the current stable series.
>
> LyX 2.3.0 is the culmination of two years of hard work. An overview
> of the new features can be found here:
>   https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX23
>
> You can download LyX 2.3.0 from https://www.lyx.org/Download/.
> Unfortunately, official Windows binaries are not available at this time.
>
> We hope you will enjoy the result!
>
> If a file from an earlier version of LyX is opened *and saved* with
> any version of 2.3.x, then the original file will automatically be
> backed up. The backup file will be found in the backup directory, if one
> is set under Tools> Preferences> Paths, or else in the same folder as
> the original file, if no backup directory is set. The filename of the
> backup file will be:
> ORIGNAME-lyxformat-NUM.lyx~
> where NUM is the LyX format number of the original file. In the case of
> a 2.2.x file, this will be 508, but in the case of older files it will be
> different.
>
> 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 2.3.0, 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.
>
> If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the
> documentation that comes with LyX (under Help) and the LyX wiki, which you
> will find at https://wiki.lyx.org/. You can also send email to the LyX
> users'
> list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org).
>
> The LyX team.
> https://www.lyx.org
>
>

Re: Important poll: would this dialog be confusing?

[emile lunardon]

Miktex 2.9 or later is mandatory to compile LyX document but if LyX is used
to simply generate LyX document  (or LaTeX  document) without compiling it,
we should not forbid this use. So I would suggest to install LyX in all
cases and if need be, to give the choice to the user either to upgrade
himself properly Miktex (followed by a reconfiguration of LyX) or to let
the LyX installer perform this Miktex  upgrade.

2018-03-13 23:13 GMT+01:00 Scott Kostyshak :

> Dear all,
>
> I would appreciate your help on an issue that is holding up the release
> of LyX 2.3.0. We are considering to add the following dialog at the
> beginning of the LyX 2.3.0 Windows installer:
>
>
> The LyX installer is going to update MiKTeX to the newest 2.9
> version. If you do not use MiKTeX with applications other than LyX,
> you likely want to choose "Continue". If you do use MiKTeX with
> other applications and do not want to update it now, or want to
> perform the update yourself, you can cancel the LyX installation
> now.
>
>  Cancel   Continue
>
>
> Do you think this dialog would be confusing for the average user?
>
> Thanks for your feedback,
>
> Scott
>

Re: Important poll: would this dialog be confusing?

[Charles Roddie]

What matters most of all is a release. I understand that Windows release has 
been held up by extensive discussions over this issue of whether to include a 
dialog. This is a minor issue as few people read dialogs. Having a dialog is 
fine, and not having a dialog is fine. Not having a version available for 
Windows however is a major problem for users.

Also may I suggest that you upgrade your email list to a forum? It's unclear 
how to interact with this list without reading  
https://www.lyx.org/MailingLists in 
detail in its entirety and even then it's not self-contained.

Apologies for the complaints: I appreciate the work of the lyx developers and 
the new features in 2.3 sound great.

Charles

Re: Long preview compilation due to unnecessarily often calling pdflatex?

[Klaus-Dieter Bauer]

I attached a simple example file. Sorry for the late replay, seems I didn't
get the previous message.

I was able to determine a few performance issues (LyX 2.3.0b prerelease):

   - LyX executes pdflatex apparently until the log file stops changing
   (except for the start time header?). While technically a reasonable
   convergence criterion, this alone ads an additional pdflatex pass.

   - With bibtex "x.lyx" finishes after 3 pdflatex passes; biblatex
   requires a 4th pass, with the following diff between 2nd and 3rd run:

>> diff x.log.2 x.log.3
[...]

660,669d659

<

< LaTeX Warning: There were undefined references.

<

<

< LaTeX Warning: Label(s) may have changed. Rerun to get cross-references
right.

<

<

< Package biblatex Warning: Please rerun LaTeX.

< (biblatex)Page breaks have changed.

<

675,676c665,666

<  18970 strings out of 493305

<  369810 string characters out of 3138875

---

>  18974 strings out of 493305

>  369854 string characters out of 3138875

[...]


   - Note that I didn't observe anything actually changing in the pdf
  between 2nd and 3rd run.

  - Using the "todonotes" module makes each pdflatex pass significantly
   slower.

I couldn't reproduce cases with 5 or more passes in a minimal example. But
for my thesis file I am getting 6 pdflatex passes, even though the log file
shows no changes between 3rd and 4th pass.

All of this wouldn't be much of a problem, if I knew a method to force a
single pdflatex pass in order to see results as quickly as possible; This
would be helpful during some steps such as fine-adjustments to the layout,
fine-adjustments to overlay-specifications in beamer presentations, or when
trying to debug compilation issues.

- Klaus


2018-03-18 4:57 GMT+01:00 Scott Kostyshak :

> On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 12:04:41PM -0500, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 01:59:54PM +, Klaus-Dieter Bauer wrote:
> >
> > > This raises the question of how LyX actually determines the number of
> times
> > > it has to run the converter; 5 times seems excessive, especially after
> the
> > > first run nothing changes anymore (latexmk).
> >
> > I believe we determine the number of times by examining the log file.
> > Can you provide us with a minimal example so that we can reproduce the
> > excessive compilation and hopefully fix it? It will probably take some
> > time for you to make a minimal example, but if we can't reproduce it, it
> > is hard for us to fix it.
>
> Klaus, can you send us a minimal example?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott
>


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