On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Allan Rae wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Baruch Even wrote:
>
> > 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).
The problem actually was that I added it manually to the preferences file,
I expected it to pick the unknown commands and save them as they are. This
is possibly section dependent. If this is so, then this section should be
marked as such, I've seen no markings of this sort.
> > 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.
I've since then removed preferences and created a mostly working lyxrc,
I'll try to use the preferences dialog and see what happens.
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Baruch Even
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