Many thanks---it is working great. Hal
> On Oct 30, 2014, at 9:20 AM, Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote: > > > Public release of LyX version 2.1.2.1 > ===================================== > > We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.1.2.1. > > This is an emergency release for OSX only. It resolves problems that affect > LyX on OSX 10.10 (Yosemite) and, indeed, any program that depends upon the > passing of environment variables to sub-processes. Only users of OSX 10.10 > should upgrade to this version. > > LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based > on the structure of your documents and not simply their appearance. It is > released under a Free and Open Source Software license. > > You can download LyX 2.1.2.1 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/. > > The remainder of this file describes the 2.1.2 release, which was the > second maintenance release in the 2.1.x series. > > LyX 2.1.2 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version > even more reliable and stable. We have fixed a number of bugs and made > a number of improvements. These are detailed below. We strongly encourage > all LyX users to upgrade to this version. > > The most important fix here is that we believe we have resolved the problem > that led several users to experience seemingly random crashes with 2.1.0, > sometimes resulting in dataloss. (This was bug 9049.) These crashes generally > happened when the user attempted to save a file containing a table, usually a > fairly complex table. A seemingly unrelated bug report concerning a crash when > trying to save a default template (bug 9236) led to the solution. That bug has > also been fixed. > > Do report your bugs, then! It really does help make LyX better, often in ways > you might not expect. > > So, if you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.1.2, open a bug report at > http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome. If you're not sure whether it > really is a bug, you can e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel > <at> lists.lyx.org) and ask. > > If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the > documentation that comes with LyX and the LyX wiki, which lives at > http://wiki.lyx.org/. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the LyX > users' list (lyx-users <at> lists.lyx.org). > > We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.1.2. > > The LyX team. > http://www.lyx.org > > > What's new > ========== > > ** Updates: > *********** > > * USER INTERFACE > > - Detect some additional postscript and pdf viewers when they are on the > system PATH (AcroRd32, SumatraPDF, gsview and qpdfview). > > > * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION > > - Update docs explaining how to activate reverse search in qpdfview. > > - New French translations of the beamer examples. > > > * BUILD/INSTALLATION > > - On Cygwin, use getent instead of grepping /etc/passwd for determining > the user's home directory when launching LyX through the gui wrapper. > > > > ** Bug fixes: > ************* > > * DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT > > - Fix crash when saving certain documents with tables (bug 9049). > > - Fix crash when saving default template (bug 9236). > > - Do not sort advanced listings settings, since their insertion order is > relevant (bug 5203). > > - Fix import of latex documents with scaled fonts. > > > * LYX2LYX > > - Fix warning "Missing \use_indices" when converting from 1.6.x format > or older. > > - Fix several conversion problems of beamer box arguments when the > arguments use multiple ERTs (part of bug 9208, bug 9225, bug 9144). > > - Fix conversion of beamer overlay arguments when the module > "beamer-resenumerate" is used (part of bug 9208). > > > * USER INTERFACE > > - Do not forget last words of paragraphs in completion possibilities. > > - Select word on double click even when at boundary (bug 9159). > > - Fix listings inset parameter validation when font size is selected > (bug 8144). > > - Fix listings validator with regard to aboveskip and belowskip (bug 7373). > > - Fix reverse search in insets (figures, tables, branches, etc.) (bug 9151). > > - Fix on-screen display of images whose type is not known to LyX (bug 9146). > > - Fix the -geometry command line argument for Windows. > > > * INTERNALS > > - Improve thread-safety. > > - Fix potential bug spotted by cppcheck. > > - Fix problems arising when converting floating point values to the > corresponding string representation (bugs 9190 and 9193). > > > * BUILD/INSTALLATION > > - Fix compatibility issue with 64-bit cygwin. >
