I will also add my hearfelt thanks, upgraded last night to Yosemite and this version of LyX without a hitch, thank you guys! Paola
On 31 October 2014 13:11:14 GMT, Hal Kierstead <hal.kierst...@me.com> wrote: >Many thanks---it is working great. > >Hal > >> On Oct 30, 2014, at 9:20 AM, Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote: >> >> >> Public release of LyX version 2.1.2.1 >> ===================================== >> >> We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.1.2.1. >> >> This is an emergency release for OSX only. It resolves problems that >affect >> LyX on OSX 10.10 (Yosemite) and, indeed, any program that depends >upon the >> passing of environment variables to sub-processes. Only users of OSX >10.10 >> should upgrade to this version. >> >> LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing >based >> on the structure of your documents and not simply their appearance. >It is >> released under a Free and Open Source Software license. >> >> You can download LyX 2.1.2.1 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/. >> >> The remainder of this file describes the 2.1.2 release, which was the >> second maintenance release in the 2.1.x series. >> >> LyX 2.1.2 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable >version >> even more reliable and stable. We have fixed a number of bugs and >made >> a number of improvements. These are detailed below. We strongly >encourage >> all LyX users to upgrade to this version. >> >> The most important fix here is that we believe we have resolved the >problem >> that led several users to experience seemingly random crashes with >2.1.0, >> sometimes resulting in dataloss. (This was bug 9049.) These crashes >generally >> happened when the user attempted to save a file containing a table, >usually a >> fairly complex table. A seemingly unrelated bug report concerning a >crash when >> trying to save a default template (bug 9236) led to the solution. >That bug has >> also been fixed. >> >> Do report your bugs, then! It really does help make LyX better, often >in ways >> you might not expect. >> >> So, if you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.1.2, open a bug report >at >> http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome. If you're not sure >whether it >> really is a bug, you can e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list >(lyx-devel >> <at> lists.lyx.org) and ask. >> >> If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the >> documentation that comes with LyX and the LyX wiki, which lives at >> http://wiki.lyx.org/. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the >LyX >> users' list (lyx-users <at> lists.lyx.org). >> >> We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.1.2. >> >> The LyX team. >> http://www.lyx.org >> >> >> What's new >> ========== >> >> ** Updates: >> *********** >> >> * USER INTERFACE >> >> - Detect some additional postscript and pdf viewers when they are on >the >> system PATH (AcroRd32, SumatraPDF, gsview and qpdfview). >> >> >> * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION >> >> - Update docs explaining how to activate reverse search in qpdfview. >> >> - New French translations of the beamer examples. >> >> >> * BUILD/INSTALLATION >> >> - On Cygwin, use getent instead of grepping /etc/passwd for >determining >> the user's home directory when launching LyX through the gui >wrapper. >> >> >> >> ** Bug fixes: >> ************* >> >> * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT >> >> - Fix crash when saving certain documents with tables (bug 9049). >> >> - Fix crash when saving default template (bug 9236). >> >> - Do not sort advanced listings settings, since their insertion order >is >> relevant (bug 5203). >> >> - Fix import of latex documents with scaled fonts. >> >> >> * LYX2LYX >> >> - Fix warning "Missing \use_indices" when converting from 1.6.x >format >> or older. >> >> - Fix several conversion problems of beamer box arguments when the >> arguments use multiple ERTs (part of bug 9208, bug 9225, bug 9144). >> >> - Fix conversion of beamer overlay arguments when the module >> "beamer-resenumerate" is used (part of bug 9208). >> >> >> * USER INTERFACE >> >> - Do not forget last words of paragraphs in completion possibilities. >> >> - Select word on double click even when at boundary (bug 9159). >> >> - Fix listings inset parameter validation when font size is selected >> (bug 8144). >> >> - Fix listings validator with regard to aboveskip and belowskip (bug >7373). >> >> - Fix reverse search in insets (figures, tables, branches, etc.) (bug >9151). >> >> - Fix on-screen display of images whose type is not known to LyX (bug >9146). >> >> - Fix the -geometry command line argument for Windows. >> >> >> * INTERNALS >> >> - Improve thread-safety. >> >> - Fix potential bug spotted by cppcheck. >> >> - Fix problems arising when converting floating point values to the >> corresponding string representation (bugs 9190 and 9193). >> >> >> * BUILD/INSTALLATION >> >> - Fix compatibility issue with 64-bit cygwin. >> -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
