Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Hello LyX testers,
I uploaded a new snapshot of the upcoming LyX version 1.6.0 for Windows:
LyX 1.6.0alpha2.
NOTE: LyX 1.6 is in alpha state! That means it is not stable enough for
a beta test release, so
expect crashes and inconsistencies. This preview release is build for
interested LyX users who want
to check out the new features of LyX.
The new features of LyX are listed here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16
Hi Uwe,
It works fine here (no crash yet). As for the previous versions (svn1
and svn2), the installer detects that I have the dictionaries installed
(English and French), but spell checking fails complaining:
The Spellchecker could not be started
No words list can be found for the language "en_US".
I see the same message in the console when I start lyx from there.
The other things I noticed may be related to LyX and my installation,
not the windows version in particular (although point 3 may be
windows-related):
1- I am not sure I fully understand how the full screen mode options are
supposed to work (I read the wiki page for Lyx 1.6, but I am still not
sure): As I understand it, the "Toggle" checkbox in the prefs
(scrollbar, tabbar, toolbar) set them "off" when checked and "on" when
unchecked (this looks an inverted logic to me BTW), and there is no
"automatic" mode to have them appear when the mouse is on the edge of
the screen. Right ?
2- I am not used to the instant preview mode (I do not really care about
my equations looking nice in lyx, I just want them to show the formula).
I tried but noticed that they get converted only after I enter them and
quit them. For a document with plenty of equations, it means I have to
go into each one manually. Is it supposed to be this way ? As I said, I
never use it, so it is not a problem.
3- pdf conversion issue. I make my graphics with Inkscape 0.46 and
export them as pdf (via Cairo). They have unconventional page size
(fitting the graphic, as a bounding box) and are displayed correctly in
adobe reader (v8), foxit reader, and gsview.
However, the display in LyX "kind of" maps them onto a Letter or A4
page. They are truncated when too wide and at the bottom of a by white
empty "page". What is more a problem is that when I view or export as
dvi, postscript or pdf with dvipdfm and ps2pdf, the same problem is
present. Only pdflatex does the right thing. I managed to fix view &
export by adding a converter from pdf to eps with the command line
gswin32c -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=epswrite -sOutputFile=$$o $$i
in the preferences, but the display in lyx is still wrong (I also
disabled the converter cache to force lyx to regenerate the preview).
Related questions: should I set any environment variable to point to the
ghostscript bin or lib directories ?
Thanks for the hard work you do. It's appreciated.
Best regards,
Olivier
PS:Soft versions are
XP pro sp2
Imagemagick 6.3.7.Q16
MiKTeX 2.7
Ghostscript 8.61
