lyx_mirror/ANNOUNCE

Public release of LyX version 1.4.4
===================================

We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.4.4. This is of course
a bug fix release, but some new features sneaked in, among which:

- Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
  documents in the Table of Contents dialog.

- Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
  allowing to select what toolbars are active or shown automatically.

- Improved documentation.

- Speed improvments, especially on windows.

This is probably going to be the penultimate 1.4.x release before LyX
1.5.0, which will be made available as a first beta version later this
week. Before the release of the final 1.5.0, a least one 1.4.5 version
that is able to read the 1.5 format will be released.

See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in this release.

In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:

   LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing
   based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. It
   is released under a Free Software / Open Source license.

   LyX is for people that write and want their writing to look great,
   right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting
   details, 'finger painting' font attributes or futzing around with page
   boundaries. You just write. In the background, Prof. Knuth's legendary
   TeX typesetting engine makes you look good.

   On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output -- or
   richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced -- looks like
   nothing else. Gone are the days of industrially bland .docs, all
   looking similarly not-quite-right, yet coming out unpredictably
   different on different printer drivers. Gone are the crashes 'eating'
   your dissertation the evening before going to press.

   LyX is stable and fully featured. It is a multi-platform, fully
   internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux, the
   Macintosh and modern Windows platforms. 

You can download LyX 1.4.4 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
which yields smaller files):

	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.4.tar.gz
	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.4.tar.bz2
	ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.4.tar.gz
	ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.4.tar.bz2

and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will also host
the .bz2 versions):

        http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.4.4.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.4.tar.gz
        ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.4.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.4.4.tar.gz

Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
installers) should soon be available at
	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.4/

If you already have the LyX 1.4.3 sources, you may want to apply one
of the following patches instead
	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.4.4.gz
	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.4.4.bz2

Note that this patch will not produce valid LyX/Mac sources, since
some binary files have been added for this release.

If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.4.4, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel  <at>  lists.lyx.org), or open
a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org

If you're having trouble using the new version of LyX, or have a question,
first check out http://www.lyx.org/help/. If you can't find the answer there,
e-mail the LyX users' list (lyx-users  <at>  lists.lyx.org).

Enjoy!

The LyX team.

What's new in version 1.4.4?
---------------------------- 

** Updates:
***********

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Improve Computer Algebra System support in math editor.

- Add support for fixed size math delimiters in math editor.

- Convert included vector graphics to pdf instead of png for pdflatex export
  (bug 2868). This is implemented with the help of a new format flag "vector"
  that you have to set manually for your self defined vector graphics formats
  if you want to use this feature.

- Add a wmf -> eps converter (bug 2845) and a latex -> rtf converter.

- Add the layout file and an example document for the beamer
  presentation class (these files where taken from the beamer package
  by Till Tantau); new layout file ISPRS (Int. Soc. Photogrammetry &
  Remote Sensing); new layout file for Arabic articles; update layout
  file for REVTeX4 (bug 1215)

- New external template for LilyPond (a music typesetter).

* USER INTERFACE:

- Outline support: it is now possible to move around parts of
  documents in the Table of Contents dialog.

- Add new UI settings default-autotoolbars and default-alltoolbars
  allowing to select what toolbars are active.

- The layout lfun without an argument does now set the layout to the default
  layout of the text class. This is used by a new button "Default" in the
  extra toolbar.

- Add a menu entry for numbered formulas (bug 2901).

- Updates to the european keyboard map (useful for entering accented
  characters on a qwerty keyboard).

* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION

- A new manual named "Embedded Objects" is available in the Help menu
  in English and Spanish. It describes in detail tables, graphics,
  floats, notes, and boxes.
  
- Updated Intro and Extended manual.

- New Galician localization; update Czech, French, German, Hungarian,
  Italian, Romanian and Spanish localization of the interface.

- New Galician translation of the documentation (splash, Intro,
  Tutorial); Update German (all), Hebrew (Intro), Italian
  (Tutorial, UserGuide), and Spanish (Intro) documentation.


** Bug fixes:
*************

* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT

- Write inherited colors correctly as "inherit" to the .lyx file. Previously
  they where written as "default", which was then read in as "none".
  Fix some help documents that contained this invalid color.

- Parse the optional argument of the AMS math environments aligned, gathered
  and alignedat.

- Support lgathered and rgathered math environments.

- Fix import of \fullcite commands from LaTeX.

- Update bibliography references when the entry has been changed (bug
  2744).

- The BibTeX style files (bst files) can now live in paths with spaces
  (bug 2186).

- Fixed undo-and-TOC-navigation bug.

- Fixed layout2layout (spurious tabs), so layout files from 1.3 can be read 
  again.

- Revert fix from 1.4.3 for better display of script insets with a nucleus
  with more than one element (like {a'}^{2}), since it was buggy and it is
  very difficult to do it right (bug 2921).

- Re-enable Address paragraph style in AMS article classes (bug 2890).

- Write \begin and \end alignment tags on their own lines (bug 3010).

- Fix output of \setlength commands, in order to please latex2html
  (bug 2843).

- Import \guilsinglright correctly from .tex files.

- Don't create invalid .lyx files when importing \i{} and \j{} from .tex
  files.

- Import \l{} and \L{} natively from .tex files (do not create ERT).

- Import correctly Sweave macros from .tex files.

- Fix nested list (like) output in docbook (bug 2841)

- Read filenames with spaces in external insets correctly from .lyx files

- Use the correct filename extension of included graphics in latex export if
  it cannot be omitted.

* USER INTERFACE:

- Fix slowness with lots of math on Windows (bug 2900).

- Fix that LyX's dialogs remain partly untranslated on Windows (bug 2906).

- Fix crash when viewing documents as PDF on Windows with installed
  Adobe Reader/Acrobat 8 (bug 3045).

- Fix a crash with PageDown/Up when the next/previous paragraph is an inset
  taller than the workarea.

- Fix some crashes (with console error message "break on pointer: ...")
  related to large insets.

- Fix a crash that occurred on exit if the clipboard was not empty (only on
  windows). This fix was already used by the official windows installer for
  1.4.3.

- Fix a crash when navigating from a label a reference in the crossrefs
  dialog (bug 3063) [qt only].

- Fix hang when deleting a forced newline character in change tracking
  mode (bug 2865).

- Fix crash when exiting empty superscript in math editor (bugs 2908
  and 2933).

- Fix an undo crash crash with nested font changes in math (bug 3019).

- Clear label when a formula is unnumbered (bug 2556).

- Disallow pressing the add button in the citation dialog when no citations
  are available, preventing a crash (bug 3057).

- Fix deletion of empty paragraph in various situations: paragraphs
  with different layouts, layouts with KeepEmpty property, ERT insets,
  tabular cells (bugs 2587 and 2882).

- fix bug where icons remain disabled after opening a dialog (bug
  2877).

- when a dialog is open in LyX/Mac, make sure that the menu entries
  that do not make sense are disabled (bug 1720).

- Fix cursor positioning when opening the VSpace dialog (bug 2869).

- Make clicking in a "wide" inset always enter that inset.

- Avoid "wide" insets in text that is centered or right-justified.

- When selecting with the mouse an area that ends on a collapsable
  inset, do not open it by mistake.

- When a box inset has been given a small width, never show it in
  inlined mode, since it would make its contents unreadable.

- Give a better error message for missing layout include files.

- Show contents of branches in the ToC.

- Fix wrong ordering of insets in ToC entries.

- Don't show starred sections in Document->Numbering & TOC (bug 2910).

- Make sure that the size changing shortcuts ``M-s <digit>'' work on a
  French keyboard too.

- Make all the operations that require walking over all insets faster.

- Fix insertion position for cross-reference in superscript (bug 2789).

- Add support for the chars-transpose LFUN (bug 2939).

- Fix undo when inserting a line break (bug 3111).

- Only one undo step is needed to undo inset-dissolve (bug 2982).

- Fix spell checking of Norwegian documents with aspell (bug 2850).

- Don't reset cell selection when opening tabular dialog (bug 2715).

- Quotation marks can now be inserted easier into mathed, which is
  important for phonetic notation (bug 3044).

- Fix one more case of copied ERT inset producing wrong language (bug 2476).

- Reset the language when dissolving an ERT inset (bug 2978).

- Sanitize button enabling in the bibtex dialog [qt only] (bug 2895).

- Fix focus problems in the graphics dialog [qt only] (bug 1663).

- On Mac OS X, make sure to view files with the same application as
  the Finder uses.

- The natbib labels weren't always displayed correctly when opening
  a document. This is fixed.

- Allow double values for graphics' bounding box parameters again
  (bug 3055). This also fixes problems with older LyX files
  (bug 3066) [qt only].

- Rename lib/ui/std*.ui include files to *.inc so that the user is not
  tempted to try them (bug 2387).

- add Aspell/Pspell's file extension for personal dictionary files
  in preferences (bug 895)

- Fix hang/crash on Windows/Cygwin when using the external date inset
  (bug 3220).

* BUILD/INSTALLATION:

- Allow autoconf 2.60 and 2.61 for building.

- Do not warn against using gcc 4.1. It works fine.

* MISCELLANEOUS

- The minimum required python version is now 2.2.0.

- Fix Free Software Foundation address.