On 2017-08-14, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 14.08.2017 um 09:43 schrieb Jean-Pierre Chrétien > <jeanpierre.chret...@free.fr>:
>> A French user complains sadly about a couple of problems with LyX >> His conf: iMac 2011 (OSX 10.12.5), MacTeX (May 24th, 2017), LyX 2.2.3, >> virtual Windows versions WinXP and Win10 (Parallels Desktop). >> His problems: >> 1) opening splash.lyx, gets a message >> No information for converting svgz format files to pdf6.\n >> Define a converter in the preferences. >> (this is the toolbar icon) > One can easily see the images are converted by rsvg-convert on my Mac. > This one I’ve installed with MacPorts. >> If this is the case, it would be perhaps better to avoid a need for >> conversion in the splash file. ... > I think this should be improved indeed. The need for external > conversion of icons at runtime is not nice. Mind, that all icons in the toolbar work without external converter. The to-be-converted image is in spash.lyx. It may be a better to remove it from the document (unless the required converter can be bundled with LyX). >> 2) Opening the Tutorial, section 2.1, he fiddles about a lot to find >> the installation folder where are the examples, As he does not find it >> in the Mac directories, he finally opens the lyx package and >> uncompresses it in a local place. >> Two questions there: here I have a 'Examples' button wheb I select >> File>Open. Is it true on Mac as well? No, on Windows and Mac the "Examples" and "Templates" buttons are missing. See http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8715 >> Where is the installation folder on Mac? The lyx directories are shown with Help>About LyX. This should be documented in Tutorial 2.1 along with the suggestion to open examples/lyx_raw.lyx. > This is an old problem. I don’t have a solution for it, sorry. > See http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6861 See also http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9301 "The actual solution is to create a symlink to the current package directory containing the shipped templates." Günter
