On 4/04/2016 10:19 a.m., Andrew Parsloe wrote:
On 4/04/2016 9:02 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote:
On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 07:50:58AM +1200, Andrew Parsloe wrote:
On 4/04/2016 5:38 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote:
On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 10:14:18AM +1200, Andrew Parsloe wrote:
On 3/04/2016 2:44 a.m., Peter Kümmel wrote:
I've downloaded a more recent version, and the console window is
absent,
which is good. However, there is a problem with \lyxformat
numbers. I see
that a new document in bleeding-edge LyX is format 507. Documents
in beta2
are 506 and are not converted. Looking at the messages pane
(newfile1.lyx is
a 506 document),
Opening document D:\Documents\newfile1.lyx...Error: Document
format failure
----------------------------------------
C:/Users/Andrew/AppData/Local/Temp/lyx_tmpdir.ZzYoSAnf4440/Buffer_convertLyXFormatiA4440.lyx
is not a readable LyX document.
Are you able to open 2.1.x files?
Scott
I hadn't tried that, but I've just done so, and no, 2.1.x files
result in
the same error. (I've reverted to beta2 now.)
I wonder if the problem is that your 2.2.0dev binary either cannot find
lyx2lyx or is using a different lyx2lyx. Note that lyx and lyx2lyx are
separate programs so the lyx program calls lyx2lyx (thus your PATH is
important). Are you using this bleeding-edge LyX thing locally or did
you install it?
Scott
Having unzipped the download, you are presented with two directories,
one labelled bin and one Resources. As I understand it, you simply
copy these on top of the installed LyX. It sounds somewhat
hair-raising. My bumbling about (it took me a number of attempts to
work out exactly what to do although the instructions seem clear
enough in hindsight) may well have had side-effects, including
corrupting PATH. At this point I'll simply wait for rc1.
Andrew
In fact I've had another go, and now the bleeding edge LyX can open
documents from earlier versions of LyX. Help > About lists the date of
the build as 3 April, QT Version 5.5.1. The citation dialogue which you
were looking for a windows user's comments on (#10019, & which is why I
undertook this exercise) looks good, as far as I can tell. The minimum
height is a little less than in 2.1.4, the minimum width the same. It
seems to stretch horizontally and vertically as I would expect.
However, there are still problems with bleeding edge LyX and as you
surmised, Scott, they do seem to centre around the path. The format of
my custom modules is not updated to 60. I had to do that manually and
the LyX icon in the task bar, when LyX is being used, is the windows
default icon for a program. When I try to change the icon windows
responds: Windows can't find the file %Program Files%\LyX
2.2\bin\lyx.exe. When I browse to C:\Program Files (x86)\LyX
2.2\bin\lyx.exe it tells me that "the file C:\Program Files (x86)\LyX
2.2\bin\lyx.exe" contains no icons. Whether this is the fault of b-e LyX
or me, I don't know.
Andrew
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