On 4/11/07 11:05 AM, "Bennett Helm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Apr 11, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Bob Lounsbury wrote: > >> Bennett, >> >> You bring up a point I was planning to ask. I have also noticed a >> slowness >> of screen redraws when typing or navigating on my 600Mhz iBook that >> was not >> noticeable with LyX 1.3.7 but is noticeable with LyX 1.4.4. >> Specifically >> when typing within figure floats and equations. >> >> My question is: Is there a way to speed this up? i.e., turning off >> instant >> preview, etc. or is it finally getting time to upgrade the old iBook. > > It is the result of significant changes in how LyX 1.4.x works as > opposed to 1.3.x. The problem is worse when typing in insets -- boxes > of text that can be opened or closed, like ERT boxes, footnotes, LyX > notes, etc. > > Is there anything that can be done? ... Not really. Smaller window > sizes may help, but that's not a tradeoff I'm willing to make. > > You might try out the beta of LyX-1.5 and let us know how performance > of that compares and whether it's acceptable. A now somewhat outdated > universal version can be found here: > > <http://edisk.fandm.edu/bennett.helm/LyX/LyX-1.5.0svn-Mac-universal.zip> > > Bennett I actually have 1.5.0beta1 and 1.5.0svn and this "slowness" is identical to 1.4.4. Interestingly though there is no "slowness" issue with 1.5.0beta1 under Ubuntu Linux on the same machine. Regards, Bob Lounsbury
