[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: #8577: Additional features manual
From:       John Robert Hudson <j.r.hudson () virginmedia ! com>
Date:       2022-11-29 14:43:20
Message-ID: 4025191.VVSzPbi7mU () linux-suse
[Download RAW message or body]

On Tuesday, 29 November 2022 11:57:37 GMT Cor Blom wrote:
> Op 29-11-2022 om 12:35 schreef Pavel Sanda:
> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 10:11:42AM +0000, John Robert Hudson wrote:
> >> On Monday, 28 November 2022 23:34:48 GMT Pavel Sanda wrote:
> >>> Excelent question. Are on Windows or Mac or Linux?
> >>> 
> >>> We did not freeze the fileformat for 2.4 yet so unless you can compile
> >>> the current development version we need to figure out how to deliver it
> >>> for people like you.
> >>> 
> >>> Perhaps Scott will propose soon some guidelines/deadlines when it comes
> >>> to
> >>> release process so I have better answers when it's a good time to start
> >>> working on the documentation.
> >>> 
> >>> Pavel
> >> 
> >> I use openSUSE Linux but I assume that if I prepare the changes in 2.3
> >> and
> >> then open a text editor and copy and paste them into Additional.lyx, save
> >> that and send you a patch, that should work. I am familiar with working
> >> with markup languages and I do not think there will be anything in a 2.3
> >> markup which will be incompatible with 2.4 - at least not in the layout
> >> of Additional.lyx.
> >> 
> >> At least we could try that when I get round to sending my first patch
> >> and, if it works, carry on that way until is is practical to have a
> >> stable version of 2.4.
> > 
> > Sounds possible, but the 2.4 manuals contain + ~5 years of changes so I
> > would think twice.
> > 
> > On the positive side, you are on Linux! Cor Blom who is our SUSE
> > maintainer is pretty active and as far as I can see there is repository
> > with recent 2.4 so I would try that:
> > https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home%3Acornelisbb%3Alyx-unstable/l
> > yx
> > 
> > (I have no clue whether how to install this on openSUSE though....)
> > Pavel
> 
> And if that is not working, please let me know.
> 
> At the moment it replaces the present lyx installation (in my experience
> master is pretty stable). If a package that is co-installable is needed,
> I can change that.
> 
> Cor
I did not install it over my stable 2.3 installation but had created a 
separate user to hold my git repository and downloaded the rpm to that user 
and used the extract option to make it available only to that user.

After I had reconfigured LyX, it loaded Additional.lyx without any problems.

Thank you. It will make things so much easier.

John




-- 
lyx-devel mailing list
lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org
http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]