On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Baruch Even wrote:
> There is a problem with the fact that the preferences dialog overrides
> lyxrc settings, as far as I understand it it will ignore lyxrc when
> preferences exists.
That's true.
> The problem stems from the fact that the preferences dialog does not
> recognize and doesnt save the settings that are needed for multi-lingual
> documents in this case hebrew and english.
If the settings existed in your system lyxrc and that value wasn't changed
when editting with Preferences it won't be saved to the preferences file.
Any settings that were in your local lyxrc before a preferences file
existed that overrode settings in the system lyxrc will be saved to the
preferences file even if those settings don't appear in the Preferences
dialog.
If this doesn't happen it could be due to a typo in lyxrc.C or it may be
due to having an old preferences file around (old == before Friday 13th).
> My main problem is that it saves kbmap_secondary but not kbmap_primary so
> I had a problem that in english documents I actually type in hebrew and
> get garbage (GIGO). For these cases it would be best to read lyxrc before
> reading preferences and only let the preferences override the individual
> settings in the lyxrc file. Possibly rewriting the lyxrc file commenting
> the overriden commands with an appropriate remark.
I'll have a look to see if I made a typo or not.
Could you try removing your preferences file and try again.
> The next stage will be to make the preferences dialog recognize all used
> commands.
Underway. I'm also trying to add warning and help messages although I
might leave the help messages till after 1.1.6.
Allan. (ARRae)
