LyX 2.4.0

[Pavel Sanda]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 04:48:14PM -0500, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> Things got a bit crazy again, but I now should have a bit of time. Where do
> people think we stand with 2.4.0? I've seen a bit of activity in the
> interim. Do we need to do one more alpha? Or should we proceed directly to
> beta 1?
> 
> What if anything needs to be done before we move to whatever the next stage
> is?

I had in mind those things for 2.4:
- recent toc_ related crashes (thread from Mon Nov  1 14:24:46 202; we have Juergen's patch, but there might other pending issues I would like to review). At least JS patch should go in before any new release.
- improve detection/users warning for banned eps->pd conversion of imagemagick (high priority before final release, but not for next alpha/beta etc)
- related is the -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY for ghostscript needed in TeXLive-2021; we might want it as a new default (i.e. \converter "ps" "pdf" "ps2pdf -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY $$i $$o" "hyperref-driver=dvip). Did not have time to check implications of such change; see thread Thu Mar 18 03:55:01 2021. However if we do such change better to do it now than in RC stage.
- fix hyperref, so people can use unicode= etc (Email thread "Hyperref support" Wed Mar 18 16:31:48 2020 on users list) (would be nice, but we have this issue for years)


I might have some time for LyX during Christmas time, but not now.

Pavel