Hello Alex. Let me see what I can do to help. > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but is it the case that > lyx-1.3.0 does not require XFORMS?
That depends on whether you would like to use the xforms frontend or the one based on the Qt library. > Currently, I have xforms-0.88-3 installed (via the > binary package xforms-0.88-3.i386.rpm). This is the > only version of XFORMS that I could get to work with > lyx-1.2.3, and I have no idea why. LyX 1.3 will not run with xforms < 0.89.5. > I would love to install xforms 1.0 with an RPM, but I have > no idea how to do the rebuilding. I downloaded the source RPM > "xforms-1.0-release.src.rpm" from the lyx ftp site. How do > I rebuild it into a regular old .rpm file for installation? You don't need to. RH8 is a supported platform, so simply download the libforms rpm from the same site and install the already-built library. > I used the binary "lyx-1.3.0-1rh8-qt.i386.rpm" to install > version 1.3.0. If you're happy with the Qt frontend, then you've no need to upgrade your xforms library. (Although I do recommend an upgrade if you use xforms.) > It looks great, except that I don't seem to have the usual > WYSIWYG feature when I type in formulas, greek letters, and > so forth. It just leaves in the raw latex. >From INSTALL Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the latex-ttf-fonts package, to be found on ftp://ftp.lyx.org/ to get maths symbols displayed properly. To find out, type: ldd `which lyx` | grep fontconfig at the console. Both RH8 and Debian unstable distributions are known to use fontconfig. HTH, -- Angus
