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2002-12-19 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes@inria.fr>
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2002-12-18 Lars Gullik Bjønnes <larsbj@birdstep.com> 2002-12-18 Lars Gullik Bjønnes <larsbj@birdstep.com>
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What's new in version 1.3.0?
----------------------------
As with the previous major version 1.2.0, many things make this new
release an exciting one. This should not however hide the fact that
the `under the hood' changes to the code have been (again) very
important. One of these invisible changes that have been going on for
a long time is the so-called GUI-independence project. We are glad to
announce that version 1.3.0 shows the first results of this.
** Qt frontend
This is of course the most visible new feature. This frontend supports
either Qt 2.x or 3.0.x and is mostly feature complete. The dialogs are
not copies of those of xforms, but that some different design choices
have been made.
There are a few caveats though:
- John???
** Xforms frontend
The avent of the Qt frontend does not mean that the historical xforms
frontend is dead. Actually, it is still the one which is the best
implemented, since we had much time to polish it. In this release,
most of the dialogs have been redesigned to be tighter.
Note also that the xforms library has been very recently updated to
version 1.0. This version has been released under the GPL, and the
availability of the source means that many bugs that have been
plaguing LyX have been fixed in xforms. You are advised to upgrade to
xforms 1.0 to enjoy all these new fixes. As a matter of fact, LyX
1.3.0 does not support anymore versions of xforms older than 0.89.5.
New features:
- Angus??
** Gnome frontend
Unfortunately, the development of the Gnome frontend has mostly
stopped recently and we have therefore disabled it. We strongly invite
anyone willing to revive this port to volunteer on the developpers
list.
** Instant preview
preview-latex is an emacs package for LaTeX that allows "instant
previews" of LaTeX code, so you can immediately see the visual
rendering of the LaTeX in the document. With the help of David
Kastrup, the author, current CVS LyX can harness this functionality to
allow instant previews in the LyX window of math equations and
figures. This feature can be immensely useful for making sure the
rendering of your equation will look right in the final output. The
preview is only displayed (when enabled) when you're not editing the
actual equation, so it's unobtrusive too.
** Math editor
Andre??
** Miscellaneous changes
- LyX now automatically uses TeX font for screen rendering if they are
available (it is not necessary anymore to configure your font server).
- Other??
What's new in version 1.2.2?
----------------------------
LyX 1.2.2 is a maintenance release. It is a recommended upgrade from
1.2.0 or 1.2.1, especially since it fixes a few bugs introduced in
1.2.1.
** Updates
- LyX builds with the newly released xforms 1.0. Actually, it is
advised to use this version of xforms, since it fixes many bugs and
support for older versions will probably be dropped in LyX 1.3.0
- selecting a word by double clicking now sets the X clipboard (like
when dragging the mouse)
- it is now possible to specify the arguments for viewers; in
particular, this means that it is possible to use browsers which
require a file: URL as HTML viewers (mozilla is used as default if
found)
- when a new LyX version is launched, the Edit>Reconfigure tool is
automatically invoked; this should avoid many problems with users
who are not aware that it is needed
- when changing the current layout with the toolbar, the corresponding
keyboard binding is shown in the minibuffer
- in hebrew language, the key " now inserts a typewriter quote (since
other quotes do not make sense in hebrew)
- Insert>Lists & TOC>Bibtex Reference uses style 'plain' by default
- new class ijmpd; update cl2emult, llncs and foils textclasses
- update sciword bindings
- small cleanup of UserGuide and FAQ; update to German, French and
Russian documentation; new Hebrew tutorial
- update french, german, russian, finnish and danish localization of
the interface
What's new in version 1.2.1?
----------------------------
LyX 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes many bugs in version
1.2.0. We hope in this way to enhance world happiness, allowing the
developers to continue busily to prepare the next major release
1.3.0. There are a lot of fixes in there, and upgrading is highly
recommended.
** Updates
- it is now possible to build LyX with xforms 1.0rc4 (and probably 1.0
when this gets released)
- partial rewrite of the find & replace feature. This should solve most of
the performance problems
- new option `keep aspect ratio' in graphics dialog
- revert to the old behaviour when creating new floats (figure,
table...): the empty paragraph in the float now is a caption. It
seems that 1.2.0 behaviour was confusing too many people
- it is now possible to set the float placement parameters to
"document defaults"
- when the cursor is inside a collapsible inset, `Edit>Open/close
float' will leave it after the inset after closing it (this should
help entering of ERT insets)
- update Finnish, Danish, French and Russian localizations
- update Tutorial to 1.2.x features
- better support for entering Cyrillic and Greek alphabets
- cleanup shortcuts for section layouts. Starred versions are now
obtained by prepending a * to the section number (M-p asterisk 0, ...,
M-p asterisk 6)
- add keyboard shortcuts to the Documents menu
- support the numpad direction keys as equivalent to normal cursor
keys
- it is now possible to specify a non-existent file name on the command
line and have this file created for you
- new class cl2emult; update template for IEEEtran; small update to
heb-article and hollywood textclasses
What's new in version 1.2.0? What's new in version 1.2.0?
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