2.4beta1 no math preview

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 19 22:55:48 UTC 2023


On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 5:52 PM Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 5:50 PM Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 8:35 AM José Matos <jaomatos at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Thu, 2023-01-19 at 08:17 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
>>> > I'm testing 2.4beta1 fedora 37 from name=Copr repo for lyx-devel
>>> > owned by jamatos.
>>> >
>>> > In 2.4beta1 choosing tools/preferences/look+feel/display/instant-
>>> > preview (on) doesn't seem to do anything.
>>> >
>>> > I should add that in 2.3.6 I never got math preview to work either,
>>> > but it has a different problem.  Math previews appear, but use absurd
>>> > amounts of whitespace around them.  I did check pdfcrop was found by
>>> > configure.log, guessing that maybe that was needed.
>>>
>>> Please update again.
>>> I noticed that I had a previous version post beta 1 available that it
>>> was overlapping beta2 (due to the naming scheme that I had adopted).
>>>
>>> FWIW in technical terms I am now using the notation, that Debian also
>>> follows, that 2.4.0~beta2-1 is smaller than 2.4.0-1 (that will be the
>>> first release for the 2.4.0).
>>>
>>> So I have removed all the previous versions to be safe.
>>>
>>> Just to be sure please go to Help->"About LyX" in the Version tab you
>>> have an option to "Copy Version Info". What does it says?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> --
>>> José Abílio
>>>
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>> Version 2.4.0-beta1
>> (Monday, May 24, 2021)
>>
>> Qt Version (run-time): 5.15.8 on platform xcb
>> Qt Version (compile-time): 5.15.2
>> Python detected: python3 -tt
>>
>> sudo dnf update
>> Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:25 ago on Thu 19 Jan 2023 05:48:13
>> PM EST.
>> Dependencies resolved.
>> Nothing to do.
>>
>> sudo dnf downgrade lyx-devel worked.
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Now on version 2.4.0-beta2, still no math preview.

Version 2.4.0-beta2
(Sunday, December 11, 2022)

Qt Version (run-time): 5.15.8 on platform xcb
Qt Version (compile-time): 5.15.8
OS Version (run-time): Fedora Linux 37 (Workstation Edition)
Python detected: python3 -tt
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