On Apr 25, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Bennett Helm wrote:
On Apr 25, 2007, at 11:54 AM, Scott Lambert wrote:
There are two problems I have been having with betas 1 & 2 on the
mac(intel). First opening 1.4.x documents fails or is weird.
Sometimes copy paste works. Sometimes exporting (to 1.3.7) in the
1.4.4 program then importing works. The other program is double
clicking on a file, even one created by 1.5, opens the program
which then immediately aborts (no error message).
Is anyone else having similar problems? I also am not sure how to
properly report a bug.
-Scott
I'm not following completely, mostly because I'm not having most of
these problems. Can you be more specific? In particular:
* In what way is opening 1.4.x documents weird?
BUG:
If use Finder contextual menu "Open with->Lyx1.5b2" while Lyx is NOT
running, it attempts to load Lyx and aborts immediately with no error
message. This happens for ANY file whether created in 1.4.x or 1.5b2.
(I am not double clicking because 1.4.4 is my default app for .lyx
files.)
WORK AROUND for 1.5b2 files only:
Loading Lyx 1.5b2 first and then doing a) Finder contextual menu
"Open with->Lyx1.5b2" OR b) selecting File->Open->"file" within Lyx,
works correctly for Lyx 1.5b2 files.
Both a) and b) result in the error "/path/file is from a different
version of LyX, but the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it." for
Lyx 1.4.x files.
WIERD WORK AROUND for 1.4.x files.
Moving or copying a Lyx 1.4.x file to the desktop completely solves
the problem. Both a) and b) work. If you don't save over the file in
1.5b2 you can repeat this several times with the same file. When
moved to the desktop it works, when it is moved back it fails again.
After saving over the file in 1.5b2 the file works as in the work-
around above.
* When does copy/paste work, and when doesn't it? (Give a recipe
that reveals a problem.)
* Precisely what is the export/import problem involving 1.3.7/1.4.4?
No problem with these. I mentioned them as work arounds for 1.4.x
files. Since then I discovered the above work around for 1.4.x files
(which is more surprising to me then the original bug).
-Scott
I can confirm the double-clicking problem. (Actually, for me it's a
matter of dragging the document icon to the LyX icon in the dock
when LyX is not currently running; when LyX is running, this isn't
a problem.) I'll take this up on the developer's list.
Bennett
-Scott
