Hi all I have a few issues/bugs with LyX 1.5.3 that I'd like to comment on.
Firstly, the 'compressed' feature for LyX documents seems like a problem when using LyX files in a CVS/SVN repository, because one can easily change a file's type from binary to text and back again. This causes havoc with tools that attempt to determine a file's text-or-binary status from the mime type, and recently when I converted a CVS repository to SVN, causes corruption of a compressed LyX document that had, on the basis of its file extension, been assigned the mime-type of 'text/x-lyx'. Can I suggest that the 'compressed' flag be part of the Save As dialog, and compressed files be given a different file extension, such as '.lyxz' (following the lead of '.svg' and '.svgz'). Next, there seems to be some strangeness is the expand/hide behaviour of footnotes. I find that when I click on a hidden footnote 'button', I often get an expansion of the text selection happening, rather than the intended result of the footnote becoming visible. Next, there is still a problem with the error reporting feature in LyX when using multiple-file compound documents. If Latex reports an error, then LyX attempts to highlight the relevant part of the text which is causing the problem. But it never works correctly if the error has occurred in a sub-document. What's worse is that the dialog box gives no information about which file the error is reported for, no the line number, so I can't even go and hunt for the offending text manually. I have to resort to exporting Latex files then running Latex directly from the commandline instead, which seems like a lot of both (FWIW I had an error that seemed to be something to do with conversion of unicode characters between a LyX 1.4 and a LyX 1.5 document, but it was rather hard to identify exactly what was causing the problem). This has been a long-standing problem. Looking at the console output of Latex, I can see that it might be quite difficult to parse its output to determine what it's actually saying, so perhaps that's why. Finally, I am pleased to say that I'm at the track-changes stage of my thesis (reviews and so on). This feature on the whole works very nicely. My only comment is that when attempting to make changes to an inline formula, the change tracking seems not to behave as it should. Also, if I delete a formula, then it doesn't get the usual red strike-out, which means you don't realise that you can't then edit it later on. Yes, there some little message in the Status Bar, but it's not something that you readily notice. Perhaps if a deleted formula could be given a pink background or something, that would be clearer. I think that LyX is coming along very well, thanks very much for all your work, and keep it up! Cheers JP
