Double word bug in LyX

KSgemgem · Post by **KSgemgem** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 2:43 am

I am having an awfully frustrating time with LyX 2.1.1 (windows 7).

There appears to be a bug that continually produces double words (i.e. it duplicates words randomly throughout the document).

For example, the sentence "The sky was very blue." could be typed and then later when returning to the sentence is is written "The sky was was very blue.".

I end up with lots of "the the", "was was", "to to" and repetition of other very frequently used words. However, it also happens with larger uncommon words.

Because my document is a thesis (using book class) and quite long, it is very frustrating. The absence of a grammar checker in LyX or spell checker that detects double words makes it a very tedious process to meticulously read to pinpoint every occurrence.

I have never actually been watching the screen when it has added a duplicate word, but I did just catch it once after writing a sentence and re-reading it immediately only to find that it had done changed this

Hypothesis: One-dimensional theory is acceptable for...

to

Hypothesis Hypothesis: One-dimensional theory is acceptable for...

having duplicated the word hypothesis.

Has anyone come across this or observed a similar thing?
It is a ridiculous thing to have to deal with when writing a long document.

cheers

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Post by **Johannes_B** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 4:28 pm

Hi, we are a bit short on LyX users right now.
I suggest to post this behaviour on the LyX mailing list. Can you
try to recognize a pattern?

KSgemgem · Post by **KSgemgem** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 12:39 am

Thanks Johannes, I have posted the question/bug to the developers mailing list.

I haven't recognized a pattern nor seen the extra word duplicated while typing.
The extra words can be anywhere in a sentence (first-word, middle or last-word) and there is no specific type of word either.

Because I am mostly touch typing I am quite aware of what ends up on the screen, but a lot of the time I'm also translating written words from notebooks and other documents so I am not always looking at the screen.

Its almost like it copies the last typed word and then when pressing space it pastes it, although that is just a random guess.

Cheers

KSgemgem · Post by **KSgemgem** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 7:36 am

Question submitted to the LyX Developers' mailing list which can be found at
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@l ... 86237.html

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