This (at bottom) is in reply to Jose Matos' first posting of January 18.
Sorry for the confusion, but I haven't been able to figure out how to
make a normal reply to the list so that the thread structure is
maintained. Any help would be appreciated.
Jose's post:
On Tue, 2023-01-17 at 18:06 -0800, Eric Barkan wrote:
As a long time user of LyX, I want to thank you all for this awesome
piece of software. Couldn't live without it!
Thank you. :-)
I installed lyx-devel-2.4.0~beta2-1 and its dependencies from the
jamatos copr lyx-devel repository for Fedora 37 X86_64 using dnf.
The program starts and functions normally as far as I can tell,
except for the instant preview problem described below.
This same system has lyx-2.3.7-1.fc37 also installed and seeming to
work perfectly. Specifically, this bug does NOT occur on the 2.3.7
installation.
That is the strange element here.
Bug Description: Inclusion of a float inset in a .lyx file prevents
instant preview from functioning. Removal of the float inset
restores instant preview functionality. Details of the float seem
irrelevant; the attached MRE contains an empty float which causes the
problem, but I've tried non-empty floats too with the same results.
Both figure floats and table floats have the same effect.
I've attached two small lyx files as an MRE. The file preview-test-
float.lyx exhibits the bug; it contains an empty float inset. The
otherwise identical file preview-test-no-float.lyx (with no float
inset) does not.
The files contain two short equations. In the example with the
float, clicking in and out of the equations does not force preview,
and nothing else I've tried seems to either.
Running the same version here I see the preview on both files.
What do you get from Help -> About LyX, in the Version tab you have an
option to "Copy Version Info". In my case I have:
Version 2.4.0-beta2
(Sunday, 11 December 2022)
Qt Version (run-time): 5.15.8 on platform xcb
Qt Version (compile-time): 5.15.8
OS Version (run-time): Fedora Linux 37 (KDE Plasma)
Python detected: python3 -tt
Thinking aloud... here we could also output the Python version, for
consistency sake...
Thanks again for all your hard work. Looking forward to the final
release.
Thank you for the report,
--
José Abílio
My reply:
Jose,
Here's my output from "Copy version info":
Version 2.4.0-beta2
(Sunday, December 11, 2022)
Qt Version (run-time): 5.15.8 on platform xcb
Qt Version (compile-time): 5.15.8
OS Version (run-time): Fedora Linux 37 (Thirty Seven)
Python detected: python3 -tt
Python --version gives "Python 3.11.1"
Also, I've tried running beta-2 from a terminal and I find that "Error:
No DVI or PDF output. latex failed." is printed after each attempt to
preview by clicking in and out of an equation.
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