On 2017-08-14, Stephan Witt wrote: >> 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. >>> One can easily see the images are converted by rsvg-convert on my Mac. >>> This one I’ve installed with MacPorts. ... >> 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. Yes, removing the reference to an svgz image in splash is just a stop-gap measure: splash is opened by default and its not a good idea to greet a new user with a waring! > A more smart conversion process should be implemented > instead. Isn’t this a possible problem for LyX on Linux too? On Linux, "software packages" can define dependencies and recommendations. In Debian/stable, LyX depends on libqt5svg5 (>=5.6.0~beta) and suggests librsvg2-bin or inkscape. * If the QT svg library is always requrired, it could/should be used as fallback for the conversion of svg/svgz images in the GUI-preview. * If some requirement framework exists for Mac, LyX could be depend on or be bundled with rsvg. >> 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. What is the "lyx dir" shown by Help>About LyX? What is the restriction of the file open dialogue? >>> 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 ... > 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… Sounds good. Günter
