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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: Bleeding-edge LyX
From:       Peter_Kümmel <syntheticpp () gmx ! net>
Date:       2016-04-04 16:14:56
Message-ID: 57029300.1040504 () gmx ! net
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Am 04.04.2016 um 12:24 schrieb Andrew Parsloe:
> On 4/04/2016 10:19 a.m., Andrew Parsloe wrote:
> > On 4/04/2016 9:02 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 07:50:58AM +1200, Andrew Parsloe wrote:
> > > > On 4/04/2016 5:38 a.m., Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 10:14:18AM +1200, Andrew Parsloe wrote:
> > > > > > On 3/04/2016 2:44 a.m., Peter Kümmel wrote:
> > > > > > I've downloaded a more recent version, and the console window is absent,
> > > > > > which is good. However, there is a problem with \lyxformat numbers. I see
> > > > > > that a new document in bleeding-edge LyX is format 507. Documents in \
> > > > > > beta2 are 506 and are not converted. Looking at the messages pane \
> > > > > > (newfile1.lyx is a 506 document),
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Opening document D:\Documents\newfile1.lyx...Error: Document format \
> > > > > > failure 
> > > > > > ----------------------------------------
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > C:/Users/Andrew/AppData/Local/Temp/lyx_tmpdir.ZzYoSAnf4440/Buffer_convertLyXFormatiA4440.lyx
> > > > > >  is not a readable LyX document.
> > > > > Are you able to open 2.1.x files?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Scott
> > > > I hadn't tried that, but I've just done so, and no, 2.1.x files result in
> > > > the same error. (I've reverted to beta2 now.)
> > > I wonder if the problem is that your 2.2.0dev binary either cannot find
> > > lyx2lyx or is using a different lyx2lyx. Note that lyx and lyx2lyx are
> > > separate programs so the lyx program calls lyx2lyx (thus your PATH is
> > > important). Are you using this bleeding-edge LyX thing locally or did
> > > you install it?
> > > 
> > > Scott
> > Having unzipped the download, you are presented with two directories, one \
> > labelled bin and one Resources. As I understand it, you simply copy these on top \
> > of the installed LyX. It sounds somewhat hair-raising. My bumbling about (it took \
> > me a number of attempts to work out exactly what to do although the instructions \
> > seem clear enough in hindsight) may well have had side-effects, including \
> > corrupting PATH. At this point I'll simply wait for rc1. 
> > Andrew
> In fact I've had another go, and now the bleeding edge LyX can open documents from \
> earlier versions of LyX. Help > About lists the date of the build as 3 April, QT \
> Version 5.5.1. The citation dialogue which you were looking for a windows user's \
> comments on (#10019, & which is why I undertook this exercise) looks good, as far \
> as I can tell. The minimum height is a little less than in 2.1.4, the minimum width \
> the same. It seems to stretch horizontally and vertically as I would expect. 
> However, there are still problems with bleeding edge LyX and as you surmised, \
> Scott, they do seem to centre around the path. The format of my custom modules is \
> not updated to 60. I had to do that manually and the LyX icon in the task bar, when \
> LyX is being used, is the windows default icon for a program. When I try to change \
> the icon windows responds: Windows can't find the file %Program Files%\LyX \
> 2.2\bin\lyx.exe. When I browse to C:\Program Files (x86)\LyX 2.2\bin\lyx.exe it \
> tells me that "the file C:\Program Files (x86)\LyX 2.2\bin\lyx.exe" contains no \
> icons. Whether this is the fault of b-e LyX or me, I don't know. 

The missing icon is a bug of b-e.

> Andrew
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