Angus Leeming schrieb:
> On Wednesday 06 December 2000 12:31, Rainer Hoffmann wrote:
> > 1) When I click with the mouse on a menu, e. g. View then the View menu
> > opens. Fine. Now if I move the mouse right to the Navigate menu while the
> > mouse button is still pressed I would expect that the Naviage menu opens
> > and the View menu closes. But that doesn't happen. Why?
>
> This is an xforms bug. Tedious isn't it.
>
> > 2) In the File-Save As Dialog: When I set the cursor in the middle of the
> > filename and press the "Entf"-Key (I think it's called "Del" on english
> > keyboard layouts) the character on the left side of the cursor is deleted
> > instead of the right side
> > 3) Same Dialog as in 2): If I press shift and cursor left/right I would
> > expect to select the character. Instead the cursor jumps to the begin/end
> > of the filename
>
> Can you tell us what bind file you are using?
> Edit->Preferences->Look&Feel->Interface->Bind file
>
menus.bind
> If it, by any chance is menus.bind or de_menus.bind then change it
> IMMEDIATELY to emacs.bind, cua.bind or something meaningful. This bug has
> already been fixed but it will really mess up your use of lyx.
>
How do I know, what is "something meaningful"?
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
> Angus
>
> ps. Are you subscribed to the lyx-devel list. If so, I won't cc all these
> mails.
>
No, since I'm only a humble user...
>
> >
> > Rainer
> >
> > "Lars Gullik Bjønnes" schrieb:
> > > The second prerelease of 1.1.6 has been available for some days now,
> > > and this time it is also announced here and not just on the developers
> > > list.
> > >
> > > We'd like it a lot if people took the time to test this version, but
> > > let me come with a stern warning first: The LyX file format has
> > > changed, so you will have problems of going back to a earlier lyx
> > > release unless you BACKUP your files. You have been warned.
> > >
> > > We would especially like testing of:
> > > - the new tabular code
> > > - the new import/export code
> > > - the externalinset code
> > >
> > > Also general user views are appreciated.
> > >
> > > >From NEWS:
> > >
> > > As with all of the 1.1.x versions of LyX, this release contains a lot
> > > of new code: in particular, half of the changes described in the
> > > ChangeLog (which dates back to the 1.1.0 release) describe changes in
> > > LyX 1.1.6!
> > >
> > > Besides the usual under-the-hood changes, LyX 1.1.6 has many
> > > new user-visible features. The main visible feature is that the
> > > GUI-independent branch of development has been merged, as well as code
> > > from the older development version:
> > >
> > > - many popups have been rewritten to use the new GUI-I scheme. In the
> > > process they have received a nice cleanup: the Document and Paragraph
> > > popups now contain in one single place what was previously scattered
> > > in many places. Similarly, the citation and cross reference popups
> > > have been overhauled.
> > >
> > > - LyX now has a Preference popup where you can change most of your
> > > lyxrc settings [Allan, details?]
> > >
> > > - the menus can now be defined in a text file, and they automatically
> > > display the keyboard bindings associated with commands.
> > >
> > > - it is now possible to provide your own icons for the toolbar.
> > >
> > > - last but not least, work has begun on a KDE and a Gnome frontend for
> > > LyX. They are not officially supported for this version, but this
> > > will give you an idea of what is happening.
> > >
> > > Other major changes in 1.1.6 include:
> > >
> > > - the table support has been completely rewritten. It is now a modular
> > > object (inset), each cell of which owns a (also) newly written text
> > > inset. This now permits automatic text-wrap inside a tabular
> > > cell (if you define a width), multiparagraph mode AND setting of
> > > layouts for the paragraphs (lists inside a tabular cell!). Last but
> > > not least, a wide tabular now scrolls automatically so that all of it
> > > is visible without the need to enlarge the window!
> > >
> > > While there are as yet no other new features, they will be now MUCH
> > > easier to add. It may be that because of being "young" code some
> > > features may not work right now, but at least it is much
> > > better than before.
> > >
> > > - new external material inset: this is a new kind of very powerful
> > > inset which will allow LyX to interface intelligently with external
> > > applications. Among other good things, it will finally allow you to
> > > include GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG, or just about any other raster format
> > > images in your document. It will even do an approximate ascii
> > > rendering when you do Ascii export if you have gifscii installed.
> > >
> > > - The code which converts from LyX format to anything else (for
> > > viewing or exporting purposes) and from anything else to LyX has been
> > > rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to export to PDF, and to
> > > import from HTML/MSWord. In fact it's now possible to add new
> > > import/export formats without recompiling LyX by specifying external
> > > programs or scripts in lyxrc settings
> > > (note that the old import/export lyxrc settings no longer work).
> > >
> > > - LyX can do command line exports without opening any GUI components.
> > >
> > > - The multilingual support has been improved. It is now possible to use
> > > in a document languages with different encodings, e.g. German (iso8859-1)
> > > and Czech (iso8859-2). Such a document can be viewed on screen using an
> > > iso10646-1 (Unicode) font. However, it is (currently) not possible to
> > > have differently encoded languages in the same paragraph.
> > > The languages and the encodings are defined in text files.
> > >
> > > - Improved support for Hebrew and Arabic (also present in 1.1.5fix2).
> > >
> > > - included files work now with docbook and linuxdoc; new layout
> > > docbook-book.
> > >
> > > - PSpell library and Aspell spell checker support now included thanks
> > > largely to Kevin Atkinson (PSpell and Aspell maintainer).
> > >
> > > And finally, there have been a lot of smaller changes, which are
> > > mentioned here for your information
> > >
> > > - the menu entry File->New does not prompt for a file name by default
> > > (this can be changed in lyxrc).
> > >
> > > - new -geometry command line option, which replaces the old -width,
> > > -height, etc.
> > >
> > > Lgb
