Hi,
I recently switched from 1.4.4 to 1.5.0 beta 2 and was really pleased
by the math toolbar that made writing math oriented stuff much faster
and easier for me. This toolbar alone is the reason why I want to
stick to 1.5.
Unfortunately I experienced the following problem:
As long as i was editing a paragraph with no math inside everything
was fine, but as soon as there was one math object in the paragraph,
the editing was very slow, typed characters got inserted into the
document at about one character per second.
(iBook G4 with 1.5G RAM, OS X 10.4.9)
I fired up the Quartz Debug.app from the Developer Apps and found
that while editing a paragraph without math, only the paragraph
itself and the scrollbar got updated. As soon as i inserted a math
environment LyX started to update the whole text area after each
keystroke. (When I deleted the math, again only the paragraph part of
the screen is updated.)
I compiled QT 4.2.3 and LyX myself today and its the same with 1.5.0
beta 3. Can anyone point me to the relevant sources so I can have a
look at it myself?
Another issue is that LyX would not configure correctly with the
instructions in INSTALL.MacOSX because the QT Libs where not
recognised correctly, the relevant portion from config.log:
configure:24304: checking for QT4_CORE
configure:24381: checking for QT4_FRONTEND
configure:24483: checking for Qt 4 library name
configure:24532: g++ -o conftest -g -Os -I/Users/astifter/qt-4.2.3//
include -I/Users/astifter/qt-4.2.3//include/Qt -I/Users/astifter/
qt-4.2.3//include/QtCore -I/Users/astifter/qt-4.2.3//include/QtGui -L/
Users/astifter/qt-4.2.3//lib -Wextra -Wall -framework Carbon -
framework OpenGL -framework AGL -framework QuickTime -lz -framework
Cocoa conftest.cpp -lc -lm -lQtCore >&5
/usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
_libiconv
_libiconv_close
_libiconv_open
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:24538: $? = 1
After I added -liconv to the export LDFLAGS command everything
configured and compiled fine. I have the macports libiconv installed,
otherwise everything should be default.
Thanks for your great software.
astifter
