On Tuesday, 29 November 2022 11:35:42 GMT Pavel Sanda wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 10:11:42AM +0000, John Robert Hudson wrote: > > On Monday, 28 November 2022 23:34:48 GMT Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > Excelent question. Are on Windows or Mac or Linux? > > > > > > We did not freeze the fileformat for 2.4 yet so unless you can compile > > > the current development version we need to figure out how to deliver it > > > for people like you. > > > > > > Perhaps Scott will propose soon some guidelines/deadlines when it comes > > > to > > > release process so I have better answers when it's a good time to start > > > working on the documentation. > > > > > > Pavel > > > > I use openSUSE Linux but I assume that if I prepare the changes in 2.3 and > > then open a text editor and copy and paste them into Additional.lyx, save > > that and send you a patch, that should work. I am familiar with working > > with markup languages and I do not think there will be anything in a 2.3 > > markup which will be incompatible with 2.4 - at least not in the layout > > of Additional.lyx. > > > > At least we could try that when I get round to sending my first patch and, > > if it works, carry on that way until is is practical to have a stable > > version of 2.4. > > Sounds possible, but the 2.4 manuals contain + ~5 years of changes so I > would think twice. > > On the positive side, you are on Linux! Cor Blom who is our SUSE maintainer > is pretty active and as far as I can see there is repository with recent > 2.4 so I would try that: > https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home%3Acornelisbb%3Alyx-unstable/lyx > > (I have no clue whether how to install this on openSUSE though....) > Pavel
I downloaded Cor’s rpm and extracted it and it works fine. So it looks as if I am all set. Thanks. John -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
