On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 11:55:24 +1000 Brendon Higgins <blhigg...@gmail.com> wrote: > (Original reporter here.) I just tried with a clean ~/.lyx, and things seem > to > behave themselves. So there's something in my .lyx that lyx does not like. It > turns out that it's certainly my preferences file. I narrowed it down after > comparing the two folders recursively and moving things to the clean .lyx one > by one. > > I had a look at the settings for these formats, and noticed that "Document > Format" is not ticked for them. If I change that for, say, "PDF (pdflatex)" > so > that it is ticked, then that particular option shows up in the Export menu > all > the time, as you ought to expect. > > Before anyone shouts PEBKAC, while I did change the viewer application option > (as you can tell), I don't believe I would have been silly enough to change > that tick mark. I reckon, somehow, that property must have been either > unchecked or not set by default properly when this property was introduced in > an earlier version. (I've been using lyx on this machine since 2006, and > would > have had similar settings, using kghostview rather than okular.)
There are two ways how this could have happened 1) either user somehow unknowingly deselected that option or played manually with the preferences file 2) something weird happened while lyx converted the pref file from lyx 1.5 -> lyx 1.6. Anyway even if 2) is true (and I dont remember similar problem reports) we are today at >= 2.1 versions where ->1.6 conversions are irrelevant. As such we can close this bug. Pavel
