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

2018-02-22 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Pavel, I didn't know that such a toolbar existed )-)-O More to explore :-)-O Thank you. el On 21/02/2018 17:40, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: >> \rcsid{$Id: handbook.lyx,v 1.11 2017/08/12 18:20:59 el Exp $} >> >> \newcommand{\versionstring}{v\rcsfilerev, >> \rcsfileyear-\rcsfil

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

2018-02-21 Thread Pavel Sanda
Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > \rcsid{$Id: handbook.lyx,v 1.11 2017/08/12 18:20:59 el Exp $} > > \newcommand{\versionstring}{v\rcsfilerev, > \rcsfileyear-\rcsfilemonth-\rcsfileday} > > suitable for preamble and/or ERT, page styles or watermarks. Do you know you can do such things natively in LyX? Ve

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

2018-02-21 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
As I wrote, for collaboration RCS is not good enough and I would also not use it. Whether to use GIT or SVN, I defer to the experts and if GIT is supported out of the box, so be it :-)-O But, for my own use on the Mac with Time Machine and Unison (to synchronize my machines at home and work) RCS

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

2018-02-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:12:01 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > > > Maybe one can take the time to look at one of the already existing > > converters from RCS (CVS?) to SVN/GIT or whatever else LyX can > > handle, but to be honest, why bother? >

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

2018-02-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: Maybe one can take the time to look at one of the already existing converters from RCS (CVS?) to SVN/GIT or whatever else LyX can handle, but to be honest, why bother? el, Even as a single user I've found git better suited to my needs than svn.

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

2018-02-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Rich, half in jest :-)-O RCS on an an existing file is better than no version control, or starting a new version control with different software (on the same document, and loosing all previous version control). It also works for single users very well, I have a few documents with includes all un

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

2018-02-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: can you quickly hack up a converter for existing documents? Eberhard, I don't understand what you're asking. When I want to track changes to a document I set up a git repository in that document's subdirectory, external to lyx. Within LyX I u

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

2018-02-20 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Rich, can you quickly hack up a converter for existing documents? :-)-O el On 17/02/2018 15:40, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 17 Feb 2018, Pavel Sanda wrote: > >> For the record, it turned out that High Sierra is no more compatible >> with old RCS binaries (if you manually run co -l file.lyx y

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

2018-02-17 Thread Pavel Sanda
Rich Shepard wrote: > If subversion, mercurial, or git are available for Macs they are more > modern than RCS. Have you considered them? I was solving someone-else's problem, so not my choice. Anyway, more modern does not mean more appropriate. RCS is most easy and one does not have to deal wi

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

2018-02-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 17 Feb 2018, Pavel Sanda wrote: For the record, it turned out that High Sierra is no more compatible with old RCS binaries (if you manually run co -l file.lyx you get "Illegal instruction: 4"). Compiling RCS via homebrew fixed the problem. Pavel, If subversion, mercurial, or git are

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

2018-02-17 Thread Pavel Sanda
Pavel Sanda wrote: > Busch, Andreas wrote: > > 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

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

2018-02-01 Thread Pavel Sanda
Busch, Andreas wrote: > 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

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

2018-01-30 Thread 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 try