Windows Installer could use work: must set miktex packages "on fly" to NO, or else LyX won't run

2012-02-19 Thread Paul Johnson
Hi: I posted yesterday about the problem that LyX will not start on Windows 7 systems. I got no responses, but I've kept at it and I think I have a suggestion about the LyX installer. I don't know why these things go wrong the way they do, but I've replicated this problem/solution on 7 different W

Re: LyX 2.0.3 Sources Available

2012-02-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Yihui Xie wrote: > I have installed from your PPA and it seems to be working well. Thanks! > Great. > One minor point: one needs to import the key before Ubuntu can use > that repository > > sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com A64833C9F

Re: LyX 2.0.3 Sources Available

2012-02-19 Thread Yihui Xie
I have installed from your PPA and it seems to be working well. Thanks! One minor point: one needs to import the key before Ubuntu can use that repository sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com A64833C9F8214ACD Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://y

Re: LyX 2.0.3 Sources Available

2012-02-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > LyX 2.0.3 source tarballs are available from: > Ubuntu binaries are available on the LyX Team PPA [1]. Should anyone trying the PPA encounter any issues with those, please let me know. [1] https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/release Con

Re: LyX 2.0.3 Sources Available

2012-02-19 Thread Yihui Xie
Good with Ubuntu 11.10: Configuration Host type:x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Special build flags: build=release use-aspell use-hunspell C Compiler: gcc C Compiler LyX flags: C Compiler flags:-O2 C++ Compiler: g+

Re: LyX 2.0.3 Sources Available

2012-02-19 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 19.02.2012 um 17:18 schrieb Richard Heck: > LyX 2.0.3 source tarballs are available from: >http://frege.brown.edu/lyx/ > Please let me know if there are any difficulties. I'll plan to release late > this week (Friday or Saturday) if there are not. > > Please note that branch is still clos

Re: LyX 2.0.3 Sources Available

2012-02-19 Thread stefano franchi
Same positive result here on archlinux x86_64, with Configuration Host type:x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Special build flags: build=release use-aspell use-enchant use-hunspell C Compiler: gcc C Compiler LyX flags: C Compiler flags:

Re: LyX 2.0.3 Sources Available

2012-02-19 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/19/2012 12:34 PM, Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote: Richard Heck comcast.net> writes: LyX 2.0.3 source tarballs are available from: http://frege.brown.edu/lyx/ Please let me know if there are any difficulties. I'll plan to release late this week (Friday or Saturday) if there are not.

Re: LyX 2.0.3 Sources Available

2012-02-19 Thread Jean-Pierre Chrétien
Richard Heck comcast.net> writes: > > > LyX 2.0.3 source tarballs are available from: > http://frege.brown.edu/lyx/ > Please let me know if there are any difficulties. I'll plan to release > late this week (Friday or Saturday) if there are not. LyX compiles and installs fine on Debian Sq

Re: [patch] use libmagic for file format detection

2012-02-19 Thread Georg Baum
Richard Heck wrote: > On 02/19/2012 07:38 AM, Georg Baum wrote: >> I do not know whether it is possible/how easy it is to build libmagic on >> windows. > That's the big question, obviously. What does the patch do if we don't > have libmagic? (I'm sure I could figure it out, but it's a big patch...

LyX 2.0.3 Sources Available

2012-02-19 Thread Richard Heck
LyX 2.0.3 source tarballs are available from: http://frege.brown.edu/lyx/ Please let me know if there are any difficulties. I'll plan to release late this week (Friday or Saturday) if there are not. Please note that branch is still closed. Richard

Branch CLOSED

2012-02-19 Thread Richard Heck
LyX 2.0.3 is in preparation.

Re: LyX 2.0 RC2 for Windows

2012-02-19 Thread Ani
I also have this problem with Adobe Reader X. You can't just update and view a pdf as usual, you have to go through the long process of exporting every time, and adobe reader x opens a screen saying: "Open recent documents" etc

Re: [patch] use libmagic for file format detection

2012-02-19 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/19/2012 07:38 AM, Georg Baum wrote: I do not know whether it is possible/how easy it is to build libmagic on windows. That's the big question, obviously. What does the patch do if we don't have libmagic? (I'm sure I could figure it out, but it's a big patch) Richard

Re: [patch] use libmagic for file format detection

2012-02-19 Thread Kornel Benko
Am Sonntag, 19. Februar 2012 um 13:38:00, schrieb Georg Baum > Some time ago we talked about the misdetection of zipped files. The > misdetection does not happen anymore, but the formats in question (.odg, > .dia etc.) are not really detected (the fallback "format name" == > "extension" is use

[patch] use libmagic for file format detection

2012-02-19 Thread Georg Baum
Some time ago we talked about the misdetection of zipped files. The misdetection does not happen anymore, but the formats in question (.odg, .dia etc.) are not really detected (the fallback "format name" == "extension" is used). To improve file format detection, an external library should be us