I've been trying to use the candidate release for 1.6. While there are some
nice new features, like the ability to cut and paste graphics there are some
changes and perhaps bugs which negatively impact lyx.
My first pet peeve is that the export document command doesn't appear to
generate any output, unless it's doing so in an unknown directory different
from the directory of the .lyx source. In particular I'm trying to convert
a lyx 1.6 file back into a 1.5.3 file so that I can run a more 'stable'
version.
My next problem is the bold font toggling in math mode. ctrl-B generates a
default \mathsymbol{} command which is wrong wrong wrong! A bold math
character should almost always be non-italicized. The one exception may be
Greek characters, but only because Latex has issues with that anyway. The
reason is that a bold letter represents a vector or matrix, which should
never be in italic font. Instead the old behavior of using \mathbf{} is
probably the correct one. I am also annoyed by the 'feature' that ctrl-B
no longer toggles bold on and off. How do I undo a bold or revert back to
normal font? I need to be able to toggle back and forth with one keystroke
or I literally don't want anything to do with the program. It's just too
inefficient for maths that contain vectors or matrices.
My next peeve that I've found is that tab no longer navigates through the
cells in an eqnarray. I haven't tried it with tables yet, but if it has the
same behavior there, that would also be bad.
After these problems I will stop testing 1.6 because I need to actually get
some work done. Now if I could just convert my document back......
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