On 17 Jul 2010, at 7:49 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
On 07/16/2010 07:25 PM, Michael McNeil Forbes wrote:
Suggestions:
1) Provide an obvious way to see the error message from the GUI.
Please file enhancement request. Mark it as component tex2lyx.
Done: #6826
2) Provide command options for tex2lyx to use files in the current
directory.
...
Layout files should be put in the system or user directory.
I did not realize that the "-userdir" specifies the location of the
".lyx"
directory (for some reason, I thought that it specified the location of
user define latex files. In afterthought it makes sense.)
I have suggested that this information be made clear in the tex2lyx
help message as it completely resolves my problem.
3) When tex2lyx can't find a file, have it say where it was
looking...
4) Have tex2lyx display the version number...
Please file a bug...
Done: #6827
5) Have LyX use ~/.lyx if it exists, even on Mac OS X...
... You can always request this with -userdir, but we try to keep
the defaults sensible on each platform. What I'd do, in your case,
is symlink .lyx to whatever the default location is on Mac.
Reasonable solution. Now that I know what -userdir does, this is not
really an issue any more.
My friend pointed me to some documentation that said layout files
must
be in ~/.lyx/layouts. Does not help.
If you could tell us where this documentation is, we will update it.
(There are places that the documentation is still Linux-centric.)
I can't actually find the page, but I think it might not have been on
the LyX site... I have added the Mac path to several Wiki pages.
P.P.S. It would also be very helpful to have a way of disabling babel
usage from the .lyx or .layout files because several users have had
problems with a buggy version (not a LyX problem) and it seems that
the only way to do this is with a custom preference setting.
I've just added this for 2.0:
Provides babel 1
Great.
Thanks,
Michael.
