Don't get vexed so quickly Jürgen :-) The users should be able to tell the problems they meet.
Of course, I find quite excessive to speak of "LyX's lack of support for Mac" or "total waste of time". I use LyX under OSX with a lot of pleasure and the fact that you spend time to make this possible is a bounty for us. Moreover, this specific problem has no special root in the OSX version, I think, since the latex classes and the LyX modules are compatible between all versions. It is true that writing a module for supporting a new class file is not very easy, but I do not know how it could be. We must find a way to tell to the WSYWYM software a way to represent on the screen the new logical components that are specific to this new class. Scientific Word (a commercial software costing a LOT money- especially in France) has always been confronted to the same problem, even if they provided a graphical style composer (it was not very easy to use either, but I have not tested it recently, since I have switched to Lyx). The only point that has maybe been somewhat deficient in the OSX support is the lack of support of Retina screens (so I am sticking to MacBooks with 1400x900 screens :-) ), but this is a limitation due to QT if I have understood well the problem. Given Nokia's problems, I do not know if the future of QT is very bright any way... Moreover, there were rumors on the mailing list indicating that the next version of QT would be Retina-compatible, but I have not followed this issue further. 2014-03-28 11:09 GMT+01:00 Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org>: > 2014-03-28 10:46 GMT+01:00 Mark Salmon: > >> I totally agree!!!I have wasted so much time trying and given up. Also >> where is the best repository for alternative classes- I am using a Mac OSX >> - like many Mac users have nearly given up with LyX's lack of support for >> Mac- LyX is a pleasure when it works but when it doesn't it is a total >> waste of time and time is something we just don't have. >> > > Aha. And you think the LyX developers, a small group of volunteers, are > blessed with an infinite treasure of free time? > > Jürgen > > -- *Prof. Murat Yildizoglu* Note: Please use the following address as such UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113) MURAT YILDIZOGLU 16 AVENUE LEON DUGUIT CS 50057 33608 PESSAC CEDEX FRANCE Bureau : E-331 mail: yildi-at-u-bordeaux4.fr web: yildizoglu.info
