Hi Steve, << Curtis -- Is LyX 2.0 still like old ones where you can compile it as, let's say, lyx-20 and it will run parallel to the LyX that came with your distro (Ubuntu 9.10 in my case)? >>
I may not be Curtis, but I can answer that question. In short, yes. I've also been running the SVN version of LyX for several months and have used it to write nearly the complete text of a book. I've been really happy with it. It's gotten a great deal more stable in the past few months and several of the new features are wonderful (my favorites are easy support for XeTeX, Sweave integration via a module, and the real time spell-checking). I'd recommend that after compiling that you manually specify a differ user and system directory, though. This will ensure that you don't have problems with the system installed version of LyX. Lyx2 -sysdir "/path/to/sys/directory" -userdir "/path/to/user/directory" Cheers, Rob PS, Can anyone comment on the new table code? I've noticed quite a bit of discussion on the developer list about it and I've been scared to update to the newest sources. (I suppose this illustrates the folly of using a piece of alpha software in a production environment ... )
