On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 11:53:24AM +1300, Andrew Parsloe wrote:
> On 29/11/2024 10:26 pm, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> > > I've been able to simplify the document to fairly minimal (attached) and 
> > > can
> > > now provide a recipe:
> > > 
> > > 1. Open LyX and the LyX temporary directory (with the list of lyx_tmpbuf0,
> > > ...)
> > > 
> > > 2. Load test.lyx in LyX
> > > 
> > > 3. A new lyx_tmpbuf<n> is formed; open it asap.
> > > 
> > > 4. If you are quick enough you should see shrunken previews, rather than 
> > > at
> > > normal screen font size.
> > > 
> > > Opening the temp buffer seems to force or accelerate the generation of the
> > > previews before they have learnt of the screen font size. The numbering of
> > > the equations in test.lyx (or some other delaying process) seems to be
> > > necessary.  I use a Default zoom (and slider) of 168% (old eyes) and 
> > > preview
> > > size of 1.0.
> > > 
> > > Andrew
> > Thanks, Andrew. Your diagnosis does make sense. I do not notice anything 
> > from the user perspective, but indeed I haven't checked the temp directory. 
> > I will try to experiment more. From your description, I see two potential 
> > bugs:
> > 
> > 1. When the problem occurs, the previews are not updated to the correct 
> > size until you edit it, right? Or is it like the bad previews show for one 
> > second and then they are correctly updated?
> > 
> > 2. Inocrrect previews are generated before they are corrected.
> > 
> > In my opinion, (1) is worse and potentially easier to fix than (2).
> > 
> > Scott
> 
> My recipe is somewhat ambiguous at step 4. What I mean is that if you open
> the temporary buffer soon enough, the previews that (eventually) form in LyX
> will be diminished.  The shrunken previews persist throughout the session
> unless a preview update of the whole document is forced, most conveniently
> by Ctrl+0 (buffer-zoom). For an inidividual shrunken preview, editing it and
> then moving the cursor outside should restore it to full size, although you
> might get caught by the #13116, #13123 bug where the preview does not
> initially show the changed content. (It seems to depend on the size of the
> document whether this happens or not.)

Thanks for those details. I've tried a couple of tweaks but still cannot 
reproduce on my side. Hopefully someone else can reproduce.

Scott

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