On 02/01/2015 05:30 PM, James Smith wrote:
Hi
I am having an awfully frustrating time using LyX. There appears to be
a bug that continually produces a duplicate of a typed word (i.e. it
duplicates words randomly throughout the document so that two words
are repeated side by side).
For example, the sentence "The sky was very blue." could be typed and
then later when returning to the sentence is is written "The sky was
was very blue.".
I end up with lots of "the the", "was was", "to to" and repetition of
other very frequently used words. However, it also happens with larger
uncommon words.
Because my document is a thesis (using book class) and quite long, it
is very frustrating. The absence of a grammar checker in LyX or spell
checker that detects double words makes it a very tedious process to
meticulously read to pinpoint every occurrence.
I have never actually been watching the screen when it has added a
duplicate word so I don't know the circumstances that prompts it to
occur. I did almost catch it once after writing a sentence and
re-reading it immediately only to find that it had changed this
Hypothesis: One-dimensional theory is acceptable for...
to
Hypothesis Hypothesis: One-dimensional theory is acceptable for...
having duplicated the word hypothesis.
It is quite a ridiculous thing to have to deal with when writing a
long document.
I'm currently using LyX 2.1.1 on Windows 7 primarily but also
sometimes LyX with Windows XP.
If there is anything I can specifically look for to pin point the
cause I'm all ears.
That is one of the strangest bugs I have ever seen. I guess the first
thing to say is that we have never had a report of this kind of problem,
which isn't very helpful, but it does suggest that it might ben some
strange threading issue. I suppose the first thing I'd do is suggest
that you upgrade to 2.1.2. There were some bugs along those lines that
got fixed in that release.
If that does not help, then hopefully someone here will have some ideas.
Richard
