From 168ad6e0b6841aeda3c19f8fab78503547603b6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:42:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] some updates for 1.3.0 git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@6025 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8 --- ChangeLog | 6 ++++++ NEWS | 16 ++++++++++++++++ UPGRADING | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++------- 3 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 9808a5076b..baaeeb6b59 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2003-02-04 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes + + * NEWS: add entry for LyX 1.2.3 + + * UPGRADING: update for 1.3.0 + 2003-01-30 Kayvan A. Sylvan * Makefile.am: test for the presence of rpmbuild. diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2db06eb8c1..1ebae09bea 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -117,6 +117,22 @@ to do such things, the filters to `downgrade' LyX files (from 1.3.0 to multi-language documents, assuming you have the right dictionaries installed. + +What's new in version 1.2.3? +---------------------------- + +LyX 1.2.3 is a maintenance release. It mainly fixes a very bad bug +where configuring LyX as root could lead to deleting the /dev/null +special device (this does not impact users of prebuilt binaries). +Also, a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been fixed. + +** Updates + +- updated italian User Guide + +- updated french localization + + What's new in version 1.2.2? ---------------------------- diff --git a/UPGRADING b/UPGRADING index de75c4ceb2..d46c2ea3b4 100644 --- a/UPGRADING +++ b/UPGRADING @@ -9,6 +9,17 @@ Edit->Reconfigure automatically the first time the program is run. If you have your own layout files, you may need to update them a little: +- floats are now defined in the layout file, using the "Float"..."End" + construct. In most cases, adding "Input stdfloats.inc" to your layout + file is enough. + +- counters are also defined in the layout files, using the + "Counter"..."End" construct. As for floats, adding "Input + stdfloats.inc" is probably a good idea. + +And of course, if you upgrade from LyX 1.1.x, remember that since +1.2.0, you have to do the following changes: + - all layout files should have a "DefaultStyle" entry - the "Latex" font style does not exist anymore. If you really need @@ -47,20 +58,23 @@ written using previous versions of LyX. All versions of LyX as far back as 0.12 are supported, so any klyx users still holding out for an alternative to xforms will finally be able to put their dinosaur to rest ;-) -Of course, this means that you must have python installed in order to -use LyX 1.3.0 with your old documents. +Of course, this means that you must have python (at least version 1.5) +installed in order to use LyX 1.3.0 with your old documents. lyx2lyx also has the framework in place to be able to convert documents to an earlier format. However, these converters have not yet been written so older versions of LyX will NOT be able to read documents saved with LyX 1.3.0. -If you were previously using the floatflt paragraph option to -wrap text around a figure, you will need to modify this for LyX 1.2.0 -manually, as described in the manuals. Please ask on the lyx-users -list for assistance if you have trouble with this. +If you were previously (in LyX 1.1.x) using the floatflt paragraph +option to wrap text around a figure, it was necessary to modify this +for LyX 1.2.0 manually, as described in the manuals. The feature has +been re-implemented as "Floting figure" inset in 1.3.0. Old files will +be converted automatically, but you may want to convert the +1.2.x-style ERT constructs with the native solution (see section 3.8 +of the Extended Features manual). -The babel package is now loaded after the user-defined +Since LyX 1.2.0, the babel package is loaded after the user-defined preamble (because some packages really need to be loaded before babel). If you relied, on babel being loaded before your own definitions, you can add an extra "\usepackage{babel}" statement at