LyX 2.4.2 Released

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 06/10/2024 à 22:17, mkriele--- via lyx-users a écrit :
> Dear developers
> 
> I just wanted to drop you a line to tell you how much I appreciate this release.  We have been treated to many great releases of Lyx, and  2.4 was really impressive. But for me personally, this release made all the difference.  A few years ago I bought a diminutive  "surface go" in order to work with lyx while travelling  light. It did work, but it was so slow that sometimes I would type whole words, which would only appear on screen after I had finished typing them.   It would be worse when I also deleted a character in between as due to the  lag something else could be deleted.  I lived with it because I love LyX and I could not think of any alternative hardware which would have been equally small but powerful enough. 2.4.2 changed this experience completely. Now hitting a key on this little thing has instantaneous effect on the screen. even though I am using.a machine which would have been considered slow more than 10 years ago. To me 2.4.2 is a change like day and night.

Dear Marcus,

Thanks a lot for your feedback. It is this kind of comments that makes 
our work worth it.

I am very happy that this performance work was useful to at least one 
person. I was worried that it came too late and that nobody would have 
the machines that make the changes useful: on my correct but 5+ years 
old machines, the changes make no difference.

Now, if you can tell me what is still slow, we might be able to improve 
the situation a bit more!

Have fun with LyX,
JMarc