On Tuesday, 29 November 2022 11:57:37 GMT Cor Blom wrote: > Op 29-11-2022 om 12:35 schreef Pavel Sanda: > > 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/l > > yx > > > > (I have no clue whether how to install this on openSUSE though....) > > Pavel > > And if that is not working, please let me know. > > At the moment it replaces the present lyx installation (in my experience > master is pretty stable). If a package that is co-installable is needed, > I can change that. > > Cor I did not install it over my stable 2.3 installation but had created a separate user to hold my git repository and downloaded the rpm to that user and used the extract option to make it available only to that user.
After I had reconfigured LyX, it loaded Additional.lyx without any problems. Thank you. It will make things so much easier. John -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
