Trouble with quote (") character on LyX 2.3.6.2 (2021-01-07)

[Busch, Andreas via lyx-users]

Hi,

it’s been a while since I have last used LyX (a couple of years), but for a 
major project I come back to this great app. I used it in the past, and want to 
say how grateful I am to everyone contributing to this great piece of software!

Having just finished writing an article in German on my Mac (running on the 
most recent version of macOS 12.3.1), I discovered several strange problems 
that concern the quote character (") - Shift 2 on a German keyboard:

a) While I can write it in LyX, I cannot search for it. I can put it into the 
search box, but the LyX editor will not find quote marks in the document. (I 
know that under Document" -> Settings I can choose various types of quote 
signs; I left it to the standard, which (in German) means typographic quote 
marks.

b) Only the opening quote marks are being exported when I export my LyX 
document to either Word (XML) or Markdown format. Yes, I know it sounds 
strange, but that is how I discovered the problem. Everything works well when 
exporting the document to pdf (via LaTeX), but not in the other export formats.

So something seems amiss. Since I searched through the mailing list archive, I 
know that this hasn’t been mentioned here before, which puzzles me even more. 
Could any of you please confirm that you don’t have the problem - and then help 
me narrow down where the problem on my machine is?

I’d be so grateful!

Thanks and best wishes,

Andreas
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Problem: version control suddenly no longer works in LyX 2.2 and 2.3rc1

[Busch, Andreas]

Hi,

for years I have used LyX with version control (GNU rcs) on a number of 
documents which I regularly revise. It has proved very useful for that purpose.

Trying to check out one of these documents I ran into trouble yesterday, 
however. LyX threw up an unexplained error box indicating that trying to use co 
(checkout) had resulted in an error. All other attempts (rolling back the last 
check-in or trying to register a new document with rcs) also failed.

I use GNU RCS 5.9.0 which appears to be the most recent, on a Mac with High 
Sierra (10.13.2) and LyX 2.2. Updating to LyX 2.3rc1 made no difference. I am 
not sure whether the last successful use of rcs with LyX predates upgrading to 
High Sierra, otherwise there were no changes to my setup.

Having checked the mailing list archive, I find no recent discussion of 
problems around rcs. If anyone has an idea where the cause of the error may be 
or any suggestions what else I should try I'd be very grateful!

Thanks and best wishes,

Andreas


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