Am 14.08.2017 um 14:46 schrieb Guenter Milde <mi...@users.sf.net>: > > 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).
Yes, I see. That’s a difference indeed. And no, there are much more icons in the user guide. I cannot imagine to remove all these icons. A more smart conversion process should be implemented instead. Isn’t this a possible problem for LyX on Linux too? >>> 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. Yes, maybe. But this doesn’t really help. One cannot traverse into the LyX.app bundle from file open dialog. There is only the symlink solution or something similar. >> 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.“ Yes, I can imagine another symlink to the examples created at runtime. Another option I’d like to propose would be a dedicated LFUN for opening the example file <filename.lyx> to be opened like the help files which can be used to point the file open dialog to the system examples folder when fired without argument. This LFUN may be bound to a special „Open Example...“ menu item. Perhaps a special one on Mac or Windows… Stephan
