lyx_mirror/ANNOUNCE

Public release of LyX version 1.3.1
===================================

We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.3.1.

As expected this is a maintenance release, which adds some polish
to the new features of LyX 1.3.0 (especially the Qt frontend) and also
fixes some significant bugs in the math editor and the lyx2lyx import
script. We also threw in a few new features (new textclasses, latex
import improvements) for good measure.

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

  LyX is an advanced open source document processor that encourages an
  approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their
  appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of 
  visual layout to the software.

  LyX runs on many Unix platforms (including MacOS X), OS/2, and under
  Windows/Cygwin. Note that all these ports use the same xforms interface 
  and therefore need an X server. 

You can download LyX 1.3.1 here :

	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
	ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz

and it should shortly propagate to the following mirrors :

        ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
        ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm0/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.1.tar.gz


Prebuild binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be 
available at
	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.1
 
If you already have LyX 1.3.0 sources, you may want to apply the
following patch instead
	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.3.1.gz  
 

If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.3.1, you may either
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel@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/, and e-mail the LyX users' list 
(lyx-users@lists.lyx.org) if you can't find an answer there.  

Enjoy!

The LyX team.


What's new
==========

** Updates

- when there is vertical space between paragraphs, the amount of space
  is also indicated in the small/medium/large case [bug #814]

- reLyX improvements: support for natib citations, for 'm' column
  descriptors in tables; a .lyx file generated by reLyX now says this

- new classes mwart, mwbk and mwrep (adaptation of the base classes to
  polish conventions); new class elsart (for journals published by
  Elsevier); updated classes koma-script (in particular new class
  scrlttr2); re-introduce class ijmpd (which was in 1.2.x) and unbreak
  class kluwer

- new "polski" keymap, useful for entering Polish on a QWERTY
  keyboard; update to Scientific Word-compatible bindings
  (documentation has been updated too)

- updates to the danish, dutch, french, german, norwegian, polish and
  spanish translation of menus

- Most of the documentation has been updated for the current version
  of LyX. If you find some problems with the documentation in this
  release, please contact lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org

** Bug fixes

- fix mathed bug where curly brackets in, e.g. {a^b}^c, would get lost
  and cause TeX errors

- fix bug where strange symbols were displayed instead of math symbols
  [Qt only]

- fix bug where "lyx -e" would refuse to work [bug #788, Qt only]

- delete lyxserver pipes on exit [bug #865, Qt only]

- add floats definition to the LLNCS class [bug #923]

- fix a bug where the DVI file was not updated due to an old format
  .dep file (this happened only when use_tempdir was set to false)

- graphics that have been set to not display in LyX are no longer
  converted [bug #920]

- fix converters for tgif format

- fix bug where preview snippets would most of the time be processed twice

- prevent a crash when generating previews if the user is not using a
  tmp directory

- fix possible crash on exit when there are many previews

- don't cause a warning message to complain about starting an already running
  timer. Just don't start it ;-)

- prevent incorrect warning message about failing to find a graphics file to 
  load when all is actually fine and dandy

- fix a bug where ERT curly braces in math formulas would have a wrong
  descent on screen

- The printer parameter preferences for "spool command" and "file
  extension" were accidentally made the same [Qt only]

- Update the language of the text after changing the document language

- fix display of right quote inset

- fix off-by-one error in placement of error insets

- fix bug where opening the tabular dialog would mark the document as 
  changed [bug #849, Qt only]

- fix bug where it was impossible to set space above/below a paragraph
  to Fill [Qt only]

- duplicate 'A' shortcut in spellchecker dialog fixed [bug #884, Qt
  only]

- duplicate 'i' shortcut in paragraph dialog fixed [bug #918, Qt only]

- some tab-navigation problems in dialogs fixed [Qt only]

- in the BibTeX dialog, fix the browsing mechanism of *.sty files and
  remove the unused Update button [bug #773, Qt only]

- in the BibTeX dialog, for a bug where the list of .bib files would
  get unnecessarily sorted [Bug #907, XForms only]

- fix some dialogs to make OK the default button [bug #921, Qt only]

- apply in External Material dialog works now  [Qt only]

- search checkboxes are not disabled for read-only documents [bug
  #937, Qt only]

- fix various problems with paper size selection [bug #844 and #866]

- duplicate 'a' shortcut in graphics dialog fixed [XForms only]

- fix bug where changing encoding of screen fonts would not work
  immediately [XForms only]

- in the dialogs, replace LaTeX font size names by LyX names for
  consistency reasons and to resolve a translation conflict

- revert is now disabled for an unchanged or unsaved document [bug #783]

- add support for 1.1.x Info insets to lyx2lyx

- fix a lyx2lyx bug that rejected csv2lyx files as badly formed

- fix conversion of 1.1.x minipages that contain tabulars by lyx2lyx

- enable the debug level to be set in lyx2lyx

- fix detection of fax programs

- fix strerror() build problem with some gcc/glibc versions [bug #874]

- fix compilation on OpenBSD

- mention in INSTALL file that the qt frontend is selected using
  --with-frontend=qt

- fix library ordering problem with cygwin

- fix problem in generation of the reLyX and noweb2lyx scripts

- the names of the programs used by the lyxpreview2bitmap.sh can now
  be more easily customized

- add a few autoconf-related files that were missing from the
  distribution 

- improve the lyx.spec file used to produce rpms